Thomas Ernest Cocking, aged about 36, of King Street, Winterton, a member of Scunthorpe Gliding Club, was killed when his glider crashed near Scunthorpe, States the Manchester Guardian, The accident o¢curred on the club's gliding ground at Appleby Clapgate, about four miles outside Scunthorpe. There had been one or two successful short flights by other members when Cocking decided io go up. Immediately after the glider had been released from the towing-rope the tip of one of the wings apparently became bent and in the strong wind the glider lost balance. Members watched Cocking make desperate efforts to right his machine, but it dived nose-first to earth, Cocking was killed outright.
The club hms been formed only about twelve months and is the only one in Lincolnshire, Cocking was one of the most experienced of its members and had helped to build the glider.
"Mr. E. R. Wilson, of Abersoch, near Pwllheli, a member of the Midland Gliding Club, and secretary of the Pwllheli Club, crashed on Jan. 9 while sliding on Llanbedrog Head, a pro-mentary projecting into Cardigan Bay about four miles from Pwllheli.
Mr. Wilson had risen about twenty feet into the air and was sailing against a strong head wind when the sailplane nose-dived and crashed into a stone wall only a few feet from the edge of the cliff. The machine fell over the cliff into the sea, but Mr. Wilson escaped uninjured.
There have now been ten gliding deaths in this country.
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