- Date
- June 8, 1983, 18:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Ashburn, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N60LSRolladen-Schneider LS-4A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830608024619A
- Case key
- 6090
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt was participating in a soaring contest & was on a round robin course from cordele, GA to perry, dawson, sylvester & back to cordele. On the return leg, there was insufficient lift to complete the trip, so an alternate landing site (wheat field) was selected. During the landing, the left wing contacted a patch of grain that had not been cut. Subsequently, the glider ground looped damaging the fuselage & left wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N60LS
- Reported as
- Rolladen-Schneider LS-4A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 4192
- Airframe hours
- 44
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Florida C. Eschenberg
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- 02J · Cordele, GA
- Airport
- 75J · Turner Co.
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 51
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,686 total · 98 in this make and model · 1,627 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ABY, 25 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.