Airframed-Kite-Hang-Gliding Incidents & Safety

• Otto Lilienthal crashed.  Fatal.
• Percy Pilcher crashed.    Fatal.
• Richard Eipper crashed and broke bones.
• Joe Faust broke arm crashing into seashore boulders.  Too many new things in the flight; poor risk management. Pilot error.
• Joe Faust injured spinal disk in butt smack following fold-up of Icarus I tail-less biplane. Craft is in storage at Smithsonian Institute awaiting repair.
• Joe Faust pulled muscles upon doing more take-offs and landings and climb-backs than he was fit for.
• Ed Guardia in mid-1900's kite-hang gliding renaissance may have been the first fatality of that movement.
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