- Date
- April 12, 1986, 15:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Waynesville, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2760RSchweizer SGS 1-26A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860412011459A
- Case key
- 7088
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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 misread his altimeter and misjudged his altitude while in the traffic pattern for landing at the private gliderport. The glider collided with powerlines on the approach end of the runway and crashed short of the runway surface.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2760R
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS 1-26A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 229
- Airframe hours
- 306
- Engine
- unknown UNK, unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Stewarts Aircraft Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 10, 1985 · 49 hours before
- Departed
- 20H9 · Waynesville, OH
- Airport
- 20H9 · Waynesville Gliderpart, runway 36, 3,000 × 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 12 total · 3 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.