Glider Crash in CA

On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 8:03:48 AM UTC-5, Casey wrote:

The pilot's NTSB doesn't seem to match up with the video that well.

Plastic Surgeon needed to save face.

He was not in control at all the final 20 seconds. They are very lucky to have survived spinning into the terrain they did and walk away. I assume the NTSB probably had no clue this footage existed when the report was written and I doubt most TV shows wait two years before airing footage. Guessing the show held it back until the report was finalized. Though I don't believe they mention it in the show, the pilot was supposedly the passengers cousin. He held a private glider license with 200 hours. Guessing they thought it was a cool idea to go shoot a glider flight up in the mountains and he lacked the experience to do it successfully.

On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 10:11:09 AM UTC-5, wrote:
He was not in control at all the final 20 seconds. They are very lucky to have survived spinning into the terrain they did and walk away. I assume the NTSB probably had no clue this footage existed when the report was written and I doubt most TV shows wait two years before airing footage. Guessing the show held it back until the report was finalized. Though I don't believe they mention it in the show, the pilot was supposedly the passengers cousin. He held a private glider license with 200 hours. Guessing they thought it was a cool idea to go shoot a glider flight up in the mountains and he lacked the experience to do it successfully.


A question I have is was that a Standard Type cert glider or does it matter about attaching a camera to outside and was there a log book endorsement for camera attachment to outside of glider for test prior to carrying a passenger or is that not needed?