At 21:15 04 July 2009, bildan wrote: (snip)

The Puchacz is not a dangerous glider. There may be dangerous pilots
who fly them, however.

How would you describe a glider in which so many people have been killed
in spinning incidents? Unlucky? Challenging? or Misunderstood perhaps?

I fully accept the reports of the pilots who tested the glider and found
that it recovered, if it had not they would not have been able to report
that it didn't.

Of course no-one is going to design a glider that cannot recover from a
spin, and of course no-one is going to design an airliner where the doors
fall off either, causing major structural failure. I do not think that the
level of expertise found at McDonnell-Douglas exists in a glider design
facility. Design faults are found in aircraft after release to service and
mostly something is done or at least restrictions are put in place to
counteract the fault, not so with the Puchacz.
The reason why no-one has reported that a Puchacz is impossible to recover
is that if it has happened the pilots have not survived to do so. It is
easy to blame someone when they are not around to challenge that finding
and this is certainly what the Canadian report does.

Is the best explanation that anyone can come up with is that the glider
attracts more than it's fair share of dangerous pilots.

I have little doubt that the Putchacz will go on killing people while it
is permitted to continue to fly, it won't be me, I will never fly in one
again.