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Memorial for ex-CRGS student killed in glider tragedy
A MEMORIAL event will be held for a Ribble Valley pilot who plunged 1,000ft to her death in a horror glider crash.
Former Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupil Amy Barsby (25) was flying solo during a competition when witnesses reported seeing the glider's wings fall off in mid-air.
Stunned onlookers could only look on in horror as the glider plummeted to the ground and although paramedics rushed to help Amy, from Dilworth Lane, Longridge, she was pronounced dead at the scene.
The tragedy happened at 3-15 p.m. on Sunday, August 8th, when Amy was on her second flight in the Inter-University Gliding Competition, at the Bicester Gliding Club, Oxfordshire.
Currently studying a PHD in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology at Queen's University, Belfast, she became hooked on gliding after taking part in a cadet training course at the Bowland Forest Gliding Club, based at Fiddler's Lane, Chipping, aged 17.
Geoff Guttery, a former chief flying instructor at the Bowland Forest Gliding Club, took Amy out for some of the lessons, which inspired her passion for the sport as a teenager.
He said: "She was a lovely girl and it is a huge tragedy for everybody at the club. She was extremely keen and enthusiastic and a very good pilot."
A funeral will take place in Edinburgh, while the family hope to hold a memorial event in Longridge.
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