Glen Anthony CONNOR
Glen Anthony CONNOR
aka CHUCK
NSW Police Academy Class 205
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 21608
Rank: Commenced Training at Goulburn Police Academy on Monday 13 August 1984 ( aged 22 years, 5 months, 8 days )
Probationary Constable – appointed 26 October 1984 ( aged 22 years, 7 months, 21 days )
Constable – appointed 26 October 1985
Acting Sergeant – Death
Stations: Wollongong G.D’s, Wollongong Rescue Squad, Sutherland, South Region Dog Squad, South Region Prosecutors
Service: From 13 August 1984 to 24 September 2000 = 16 years, 1 month, 11 days Service
Awards: National Medal – granted 30 August 2000
Born: Monday 5 March 1962
Died Sunday 24 September 2000 about 11am
Age: 38 years, 6 months, 19 days
Cause: Hang gliding accident – Pilot
Event date: Sunday 24 September 2000
Event location: Bald Hill, Stanwell Tops, NSW
Funeral date: ?
Funeral location: ?
Buried at: ?
Memorial: the “Chuck Connor” trophy for “reteam on Course Dux”
24 September 2000
Acting Sgt Glen “Chuck” Connor, 38 old, who lived at Otford, died about 11am in a hang gliding collision at Stanwell Tops.
He had a female passenger from Albion Park Rail and collided with another paraglider, being piloted by Vitali Kouznetsov from Hurstville as the second glider took off from Bald Hill they became entangled. The woman and Vitali survived the crash.
Glen was also the owner / operator of “Skybound Hang Gliding School” and had been a qualified hang gliding instructor since 21 July 1983 with approximately 1850 hours hang gliding experience.
Glen’s wife, Sue and brother Adrian were on the hill and witnessed the accident.
Glen used to work at Wollongong G.D’s, South Region Dog Squad around 1992 & his dogs name was ‘Jet’ and, from memory, Wollongong Prosecutors.
At the time of his death he was stationed at Sutherland Prosecutors.
May Glen forever Rest In Peace.
Accident location [codepeople-post-map]
Page 11 Wednesday 21 March 2001
Illawarra Mercury page 9
Monday 10 February 1992 with police dog Jet
Hang-gliders hurt in Stanwell Park crash landing
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BRETT COX
Two hang-gliders had to be rescued by helicopter from a rock at the bottom of a cliff after they were injured during a tandem flight at Stanwell Park.
The delicate rescue operation occurred under a darkening sky after an unexpected change of wind forced the emergency landing about 4.30pm yesterday.Hang-glider operator Tony Armstrong, 55, of the Stanwell Park Hang-gliding and Paragliding School, was initially knocked unconscious while landing on the rock.
He was later taken by helicopter to St George Hospital with head injuries and is in a stable condition.
The other man, an Irishman in his 30s visiting Australia on a working holiday visa, received cuts to his leg and was driven by ambulance to Wollongong Hospital.
Mark Mitsos, secretary of the school, told the Mercury northern suburbs man Mr Armstrong had more than 25 years’ hang-gliding experience and had spent thousands of hours in the air off Bald Hill.
“There was a very sudden change in wind direction and he effectively had to make an emergency landing down at the bottom – and there’s not too many options down there,” Mr Mitsos said.
Local hang-glider Matt Radzyner said sudden wind changes at Bald Hill were almost impossible to predict. He praised Mr Armstrong.
“He would have been in control the whole time and he obviously put his passenger first because his passenger had much lesser injuries.
“He took the brunt of the crash.
“The injured Irishman used his mobile phone to call five friends waiting on Bald Hill, who walked 40 minutes down a steep track to the men’s aid.
Ambulance officers began the trek just after 5pm, but the rescue helicopter reached the injured men first and winched them back to the top of the cliff.
The friends were transported to a nearby beach.
The most high-profile hang-gliding accident in recent times at Bald Hill occurred in September 2000 and left two dead.
Police officer Sergeant Glenn Connor, of Otford, was flying tandem with an Albion Park Rail woman when their gilder became tangled in the lines of a paraglider being flown by Hurstville man Vitali Kouznetsov.
The woman survived.
https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/622998/hang-gliders-hurt-in-stanwell-park-crash-landing/