At 07:30 02 September 2019, Tim Taylor wrote:
From tvn24, translated with Google:


Glider pilot and multiple world champion Sebastian Kawa was
hospitalized
af=
ter an accident during a competition in Italy. - Sebastian is feeling
well
=
and left the hospital at his own request - his father Tomasz Kawa
informed
=
on TVN24. The pilot's father explained that the bad weather on the
Apennine=
Peninsula had contributed to the accident. It is about the storms
occurrin=
g there, which impede visibility during glider flight. - Storms closed
Seba=
stian over an area where there are no landing places - he said. "It
threw
h=
im into the air high over a dozen meters" - The glider has
calculated
emerg=
ency or accidental landings, but it was a very unfavorable system.
Sebastia=
n happily spotted a piece of grass-covered slope, but when he
came in
conta=
ct with the ground, and you need to land at an increased speed,
about 130
k=
ilometers per hour, he hit a kind of threshold on an aircraft carrier,
thre=
w him into the air a dozen meters high (... ) was in a vertical
configurati=
on, at an angle of about fifty degrees and hung without speed - he
explaine=
d. - Luckily, this glider dropped symmetrically, but with such
energy that
=
the landing gear broke down, the hull was also damaged, the pilot
was
affec=
ted by the appropriate forces, but the athletic, young body
somehow
endured=
it and it's ok - he added. As Tomasz Kawa said, medical aid "had
no
chance=
" to get to the scene of the accident. The glider and pilot were
downloaded=
by themselves, and then Kawa went to the hospital. Multiple world
champion=
in gliding 46-year-old Sebastian Kawa is the most successful pilot
in
hist=
ory. He has a dozen or so world championship titles, as well as,
among
othe=
rs, two gold of the World Aviation Games and seven European
championship
ti=
tles. Author: mjz // kg / Source: tvn24 (http://www.tvn24.pl)


The central mountain ridge system in Italy is tough for out landings.
The land has been handed down and subdivided among the heirs
over many generations, leaving mostly small fields available. The
ground is hard clay, and they plow it using bulldozers to pull the
plows. The clay is turned up in hard clay clumps about a foot in
diameter. When I flew in Rieti at the 1985 WGC, we had glider off
field landing carnage all over.

RO