LET L-13 Blanik BGA.2173 at "Stockhill".

At 12.35hrs on 4th July 1985 the pilot of this glider made an approach to land in a field at Stockhill, Yorkshire but believed that the speed was too high so opened the spoilers. He then turned into the field at too low height and wing tip caught a crop which caused it to hit the ground and groundloop.

Exactly where this occurred is unclear. There is a Stockhill near Settle, but there is a Stockhill Farm around a mile from the gliding site at Sutton Bank. In the 1984-85 British Soaring Handbook this glider is listed as registered to the Yorkshire Gliding Club at Sutton Bank.

Pilot - Name unknown.

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