http://www.nhgc.asn.au/node/1823

It brings me great sadness to inform you that my much loved Aeros
Combat L13 had its last flight on 29/3/13. We were having a great little fly
around Mt Borrah (Manila NSW) with about 150 Paragliders also! The wind was
about 5-10kts with mild but noticeable turbulence that was only a little uneasy
at times, in fact very mild compared to other days.

Deciding to land I headed over the back to Godfry's at about 200 feet above
launch, heading a bit SE to be on the lee of the saddle so not to be in the lee
of the main hill thinking if there was any rotor this would be the best line to
take. Meanwhile Simon and a paraglider were turning in some light lift further
downwind and experiencing some turbulence but nothing to be worried about and
below me was a paraglider low, thinking that he was mad to be there that low
with a collapsible wing!

I then hit a strong surge of lift thinking that this is probably the core that
they were looking for and entered an aggressive turn gaining a little but then
straight into sink, this is when the air definitely felt not normal! I was just
about to radio to Simon that this feels like rotor when the nose pitched down
suddenly, pointing straight down with no bar pressure and silence, I assumed the
locked arm position ready for the speed to build and then pull out. (I had
previously been in this position last year and the glider pulled out ok, just a
massive increase in my heat rate was the outcome! BUT I was flying with my tail
then! I have since stopped flying with the tail and retuned the glider to a safe
sprog setting and reduced all sail tension and the glider has been flying great
with good handling and no signs of instability.)

That feeling of no control heading straight at the ground become worse when I
felt a kick from behind! The glider instantly tucked and I was just a ragged
doll being smashed and battered! Something broke and then we started spinning,
everything happened so fast and next thing I found myself hanging at the bottom
of the wreckage in prone face down knowing that this is it! Time to throw the
chute!

Found out what happened at the URL above.