- Date
- April 22, 1992, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Newnan, GA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N107TGlaser-Dirks DG-600/18M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920422010559A
- Case key
- 8591
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Probable cause
The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons, and the pilot's failure to maintain airspeed, which resulted in an inadvertent stall at too low of an altitude to effect recovery.
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
During the initial climb after take off, witnesses noted that the engine on the motorized glider had quit or was sputtering. The glider passed over two additional witnesses, just above the tree tops, with the propeller windmilling. The engine was again heard but was described as too loud & racing. Afterwards the sound of an impact was heard. An examination of the engine failed to reveal an explanation for the loss of engine power. The flight controls were found intact & functional. An examination of the accident site indicated that the glider had impacted in a nearly vertical nose down attitude. It crashed in an open field just after overflying the edge of the tree line which bordered the open field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N107T
- Reported as
- Glaser-Dirks DG-600/18M
- Category
- Glider, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 6-93M39
- Airframe hours
- 15
- Engine
- Rotax 275, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bridges, Bobby L.
- Registered owner
- Bridges, Bobby L.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 15, 1992 · 11 hours before
- Airport
- NONE · Private, runway 36, 3,300 × ft, grass/turf
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 54
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Toxicology
- Performed
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ATL, 35 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.