Accident EoN 5 Olympia 2 VH-GDQ, Sunday 28 January 1979

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Date:	Sunday 28 January 1979
Time:	15:15
Type:	EoN 5 Olympia 2
Owner/operator:
Registration:	VH-GDQ
MSN:	EoN/O/019
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	13km NW of Stonefield, SA - Australia
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Stonefield, SA
Destination airport:	Stonefield, SA
Investigating agency:	BASI
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
At about 1515 hours, Central Summer Time, on 28 January, 1979, a single place Olympia Mark 2 glider of wooden construction, registered VH-GDQ, and a single place Astir CS77 glider of fibreglass construction, registered VH-KYO, collided in flight at a height of about 3000 feet above a point some 13 km north-west of Stonefield, South Australia.

Both gliders were extensively damaged in the collision and crashed to the ground. The pilot of VH-GDQ was probably seriously injured in the collision and was killed on impact with the ground. He was not equipped with a parachute, contrary to the rules of the Gliding Federation of Australia. The pilot of VH-KYO jettisoned the cockpit canopy, evacuated the glider and deployed his parachute. He alighted in an open field without injury.

Accident investigation: