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Rick,
This is what I get when I click on the most recent pdf:
“You do not have access to this document.”
This is a really big deal.
All other free-flight and extreme sport groups openly provide fatality data.
They supply this vital information so members of the public can educate themselves on whether or not to participate.
No other sporting group requires a payment of some kind to receive this information.
Fatality Report 2013 PDF
Fatality Report 2014 PDF
Fatality Report 2015 PDF
Fatality Report 2016 PDF
Fatality Report 2017 PDF
Fatality Report 2018 PDF
https://www.ushpa.org/page/fatalities
Accident Safety Articles - Hang Gliding
2007 Hang Gliding Accident Summary by Joe Gregor and Bacil Dickert
2005 Hang Gliding Accident Summary by Joe Gregor
2004 Hang Gliding Accident Summary by Joe Gregor and Brian Vant-Hull
2003 Hang Gliding Accident Summary by Tom Johns
Hang Gliding Accidents - The First 20 Years by Doug Hildreth
Accident Safety Articles - Paragliding
2010 Paragliding Accident Summary by Mike Steed
2009 Paragliding Accident Summary by Mike Steed
2008 Paragliding Accident Summary by Mike Steed
2007 Paragliding Accident Summary by Mike Steed
2006 Paragliding Accident Summary by Mike Steed
2005 Paragliding Accident Summary by Jim Little
2004 Paragliding Accident Summary by Jim Little
2003 Paragliding Accident Summary by Jim Little
2002 Paragliding Accident Summary by Jim Little
2001 Paragliding Accident Summary by Jim Little
2000 Paragliding Accident Summary by Paul Klemond
1999 Paragliding Accident Summary by Paul Klemond
1998 Paragliding Accident Summary by Paul Klemond
https://www.ushpa.org/page/accident-analysis
When the government takes a look at this, it is going to wonder what the hell these sportsmen have to hide.
RV Wills and Doug Hildreth must be looking down and shaking their heads in disgust at what this abomination of an association has become.
“If we fail in our responsibility to establish a reliable central data bank on hang glider accidents,
we are going to look like a happy-go-lucky band of daredevil adventurers
to some politician or judge and you may one day no longer be able to soar free as a bird,
regardless of what our true safety record may be.”
-- R.V. Wills, First USHGA Accident Chairman
"My primary concern with generating these figures, however, is that
if they are to be compared to other hazardous sports and other forms of aviation,
I sure would like the other sporting organizations to compute their fatality data
in an honest way and use a similar approach to hang gliding such that the comparisons will indeed be accurate."
-- Doug Hildreth, Second USHGA Accident Chairman
Hang glider pilots need to re-form a responsible national hang gliding organization.
Whatever this unworkable hybrid group is, it has gone insane.
Time is running out, btw.
I have no sympathy for those who do nothing.
You all deserve what is about to befall you.
