[Illusion]

Larry Hockensmith—a licensed power pilot for over 40 years, but still a student glider pilot—was flying over the Cleveland National Forest, a few miles southwest of Lake Elsinore, CA, when he executed a rather dramatic and unfavorable outlanding, effectively "totaling" his Schweizer 1-26 sailplane, valued at $8,500.

The entire event was captured in eery, HD silence—the GoPro video providing an invaluable after-the-fact learning aid, from which Hockensmith and fellow pilots can watch and determine what went wrong and how better to handle a similar such situation in future, should that ever become necessary.

[Emperor Wang]

Real sweet piloting there, didnt panic, found the road and can walk away from it

[toben74]

damn mailboxes gotta go and fuck up a good landing

[MeMyselfandI]

damn thought he had it

[Desensitisation]

Saw the mailboxes, saw the lean, knew what was coming. A friend of mine is a glider pilot.

[sweep101]

I am learning to fly a glider, first lesson mind the mail boxes

[Gollum09]

cool customer, i'd have shit myself

[BryanXavier]

"and..OUT!" As soon as he landed he exited. Cool as a cucumber.

[drm82]

I thought that was actually well played.

[minka1]

Well TG for no one being on the road during that time! Only took out the garbage bins.