- Date
- July 9, 1983, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Warrenton, VA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2743HSchweizer SGS-2-33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 6121
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot collided with a tree while landing in windy conditions. The pilot had flown one dual flt on this day and then went up for a 39 minute solo flt. Upon her return she was low on downwind so she made a close in base but drifted to theright on final in the wind. The wind was from the nw at 10 KTS gusting to 15 KTS. The pilot did not realign in time to miss a 30 ft tree to the right of the rwy. The acft cartwheeled and fell to the ground. The student pilot had 3 hrs solotime in gliders.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2743H
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS-2-33A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 503
- Airframe hours
- 1,481
- Engine
- None, unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Warrenton Soaring Center
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 7, 1982 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- 9W0 · Warrenton, VA
- Airport
- 9W0 · Warrenton Airport, runway 33, 1,922 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 33
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown
- Flight hours
- 19 total · 19 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 0° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point -0 °F