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I've never heard of a fatality, or even
an accident during a 'contest finish' - either during
a contest or at any other time, though I cannot say
definitively that it's never happend.

Here are two I can definitively remember:

A fatality occurred after a low pass at California City contest a few
years ago.

There was a famous accident at our local regional many years ago,
where a pilot finished too slowly, pulled up, and flew through the
aerials on the Flight Service Station. No injury, limited damage, very
lucky.

My personal experience
(and statistics on the subject) suggests that we should
be more concerned with too little speed (stall/spin)
than too much speed.

The scary low passes I've seen were almost all done with too little
speed, which means when the pilot pulls up, he is still low, making a
pattern (any kind of pattern) to the landing more difficult.

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Eric Greenwell
Richland, WA (USA)