Just to pinch in the bud any speculation, the weak link was a fairly new Tost link with blue link (600 daN) fitted.
Our engineers are still trying to figure why the rope broke instead of the link, if they find out, of course that will be reported to GFA Airworthiness. John Welsh From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of tom.wilk...@internode.on.net Sent: Monday, 19 March 2012 9:36 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Practice hook up procedure Though I don't understand much about this specific incident, surely having the rope wrapped around the back of the wind would cause some of the load in the rope to be distributed into the wing itself? This would mean the section of rope between the wing and the hook would be under less load than the rest of the rope and therefor the weak link wouldn't break? Just a theory Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net> Cc: Sent: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:34:48 +1100 Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Practice hook up procedure There is a brief report on GFA web site but no mention of why weak link failed to break before the damage was done. I am not trying to upset club members. Ian M On 19 March 2012 10:57, Ben Jones <bjo...@pipecomp.com.au> wrote: What happened in WA is such a secret, the members haven’t been informed yet.
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