Ramy wrote:

As usual, the NTSB report is useless. Doesn't even attempt to analyze
the cause for the accident.

One of my younger soaring friends hauled rides there for a couple of stints.
He clocked over 100 hours a month in 2-32's which we reckoned may have
20,000 to 40,000 hours on them in all that salt air. Airmanship or lack of
it may have had nothing to do with this sad incident.

IIRC, there was a 2-32 spin-in at Calistoga about 1980 or so where the
suspected cause was the PAX hiking boot jammed between the rudder pedal and
fuselage.

Frank Whiteley