-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Rene Vidal <[email protected]> To: 'IGC Delegates' <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: [igc-discuss] CHILEAN GRAND PRIX ACCIDENT Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:16:55 -0300
Dear friends, We have been extremely excited about the Qualifying Grand Prix in Chile from January 17th to 25th, 2009 which is under progress. During the fourth race (today), 30 minutes before the start, we had the terrible news that one of our pilots. Mauricio Pérez (Chile) had crashed. The area involved is the mountains, is a very easy and well known to all pilots including Mauricio who had lots of experience there. He had 820 hours, Chilean Champion on 2007 and son of Carlos Pérez who is very well known as glider pilot in Chile. On 2007, Mauricio with his father and his brother, did a double cross in the Andes from Santiago (Chile) – Mendoza (Argentina) – Santiago (Chile). It was a great challenge. Investigation is under progress. We are all sad at the QGP but as we know, the show must go on. See us at www.grandprixchile2009.org <http://www.grandprixchile2009.org/> Best Regards, René Vidal IGC Delegate, Chile ____________________________________________________________ To modify your subscriber status for the IGC-DISCUSS list, check http://www.fai.org/lists/instructions FAI Gliding Commission Web Pages : http://www.fai.org/gliding/ _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
