- Date
- June 16, 1984, 13:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Manning, SC
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2754RSchweizer SGS 1-26A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840616024469A
- Case key
- 6481
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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 plt entered a steep turn at the end of a 2nd field that she had selected for a landing. While maneuvering to land, the right wing contacted the ground & the left wing hit a power line. This was the plt's 1st tow & release in this model.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2754R
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS 1-26A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 219
- Airframe hours
- 1,600
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Santee Soaring Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 5, 1983 · 60 hours before
- Airport
- MNI · Clarendon County, runway 19, 3,600 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 24
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 391 total · 1 in this make and model · 225 as pilot in command · 75 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CHS, 43 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.