Glider had veered 500 meters away from competition area: reports

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/11/02
By: Matthew Strong, , Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A contest for unmanned gliders in Pingtung County’s Kenting went fatally wrong Saturday (November 2) when a competitor for the United States team hit and killed a woman holding her two-year-old boy, reports said.

The glider, which weighed 2 kilograms, hit a 36-year-old woman named Lin (林) in the head and injured her child, according to the United Daily News website. The boy’s injuries were not grave, reports said.    [FULL  STORY]