Another glider crash?

I flew that 20B for many years, as standard, as built for Waibel who did the test flight on it. Never saw the need for winglets or anything else ...it went like stink, frogless.
The handles all being on the left seemed to me to be a lot easier than having the gear handle on the right. One hand on the stick, one hand on the handles.
Only confusion I ever had was flying one task with the gear down the entire time. Radio was on the fritz so did not get calls from friendly pilots to check it. Finished task, pulled up into downwind and put gear "down" and it all went quiet. Foolish feeling, so replaced gear handle in correct down position and landed.
Everybody at Fairfield was very nice, little ribbing, some thank yous for giving them an added handicap.
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On Sunday, September 20, 2015 at 3:13:54 PM UTC-6, Ron Gleason wrote:
Saratoga NY, news report here

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/s391... dium=twitter