A charge of criminal negligence causing death has been laid against a hang-glider pilot in connection with an incident in which a 27-year-old woman plunged 300 metres to the ground last year.
William (Jon) Orders, 50, was flying with Lenami Godinez-Avila when she fell seconds after the launch of a tandem flight off Mount Woodside in the Fraser Valley on April 28, 2012.
Orders, a Burnaby resident, was earlier charged with obstructing justice after police alleged he swallowed the data disk from a video camera aboard his glider.
Orders appeared in Chilliwack Provincial Court on Monday, with his next scheduled appearance in March.
