Perfectly good pilots take perfectly good aeroplanes and fly them into the ground. Why does this happen, especially when the mistakes are usually so obvious?

In this episode, G Dale recounts the flight where luck was the only reason he walked away and we discuss what we can all learn from it.

00:00 Welcome to the Soaring Show
01:10 Anatomy of an Accident
02:16 The Story Begins
04:57 Where it Starts to Go Wrong
07:10 It Gets Worse
11:10 How Close It Was to a Tragedy
13:00 But wait, There's more!
14:00 Tea, Cake and Tears
14:45 What did we learn?
17:30 THIS IS THE IMPORTANT BIT
24:54 Where the incident actually started