Glasflugel 303 Mosquito G-DECH glider near Thirlmere.

Believed to have been on 25th April 2008 a glider flying from the Eden Soaring Club site force landed in a field at West Head, Thirlmere but ended up coming to rest across a barbed wire fence and in a stream. The pilot was slightly injured as a result of this incident. Basic information was printed in local newspapers at the time from which this basic webpage is created.

Pilot - Mr Richard Benjamin Walker.

This glider was owned by the pilot and his wife, of Troston, near Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk. He had been a member of the Cambridge Gliding Club. This glider had previously been registered as BGA.2575.

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