27 August - Find Guy Anderson - Your help is needed, please

Fellow GB pilot and friend, Guy Anderson, has been missing from the end of the last task of the PWC Sun Valley on Saturday afternoon.

For the past 48hrs, I, together with other members of the Comps Panel have been in regular touch with local sources to find out as much information as possible about the search and rescue operation  in process.

Now that know that Guy's family are aware of the situation, we posted a news bulletin on the frontpage of our website: http://www.paraglidingcomps.org.uk/
and after unanimous agreement by the British Competitions Panel members, Steve Senior acting as Chairman and on behalf of the Panel, sent out an email this afternoon which I subsequently forwarded to everyone I could think of in the paragliding community. Thank you for having received it and my apologies for those who do not know Guy personally, but I thought as we are all pilots, it was relevant enough to send.

The email is here below:

QUOTE:

Dear Fellow Pilots

News: Guy Anderson was reported missing on Saturday evening, following the last task at the World Cup in Sun Valley.  The Organisation there plus Russ Ogden and others have been on an intensive search since then, involving the police and military, plus loads of troops and planes/helicopters etc.

Steve Senior has just had a call from Russ Ogden and Nick Greece in Sun Valley, who are desperate for some cash to support the Guy Anderson (UK pilot missing from the last task of the PWC in Sun Valley, Idaho last week) rescue mission.  Before the police and army got properly involved, the guys on-site have been spending out of their own pockets to use local planes and pilots to search for Guy, and continue to do so in parallel, renting small aircraft.

They have asked me to let everyone know who could possibly help, and give some funds to help the rescue.  They DO NOT want this publicised or mentioned on PGForum, but feel free to pass this on urgently to all your (and Guy’s friends).

Please log onto PayPal

https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

then send as much as you can manage to nicogotz@hotmail.com which is Nick Greece’s account.  The money will be well-used and anything recovered from Guy’s insurance or otherwise will be redistributed back to those that gave.

Russ and Nick among others have been flat out searching, and are going straight back out now. 

Please email or call me if you have any questions or want further information.  I will brief you all on progress in the search but please do not ‘broadcast’ information on this – the guys there are working very hard. UNQUOTE

 Since we have had an overwhelming response and donations have been incredibly generous, so thank you.

The XC Magazine link where you can read the official statement can be found here:

http://www.xcmag.com/2012/08/paragliding-world-cup-sun-valley-guy-anderson/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paragliding-world-cup-sun-valley-guy-anderson

Please help by forwarding the email to anyone who may know Guy, or fellow pilots who can help even by the smallest of donations would be much appreciated. We have the assurance that on-site operations will not cease until he is indeed found.
Thank you so much.