Glider accident while filming commercial in 2011. NTSB Report updated

On Monday, June 24, 2013 6:11:53 PM UTC-6, waremark wrote:
I find it exceptionally unlikely that winch launching is an order of magnitude safer in Germany than the UK. Bill, would you be kind enough to write a succinct summary of your evidence with appropriate links in a form which is suitable for referring to the BGA Safety Committee?
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I already have - several times. At this point I'm growing weary of UK denial. Believe what you will. It's your necks your breaking.

This is the last time I'll go through it. The numbers below are just too big to spin no matter how much you attack them. It doesn't' matter if you think it's 10:1 or "merely" 5:1 it's still ugly.

If one simply takes the BGA report supplied earlier in this thread which states there is one accident in the UK every 13,000 launches as true and compare it with the German BFU/DAeC data showing one accident in 180,000 launches you have a ratio of 13.8:1 in favor of Germany - well over an order of magnitude difference.

The German number of launches a year was from the DAeC report showing just under a million launches a year. The BFU shows 5 accidents in 2011. If you choose 900,000 German launches as a conservative number and divide by 5 you get 1 accident in 180,000 launches.