- Date
- May 19, 1985, 16:17 local (20:17 UTC)
- Place
- Warrenton, VA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2885HSchweizer SGS 2-33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850519023199A
- Case key
- 11179
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt was obtaining transition tng fm pwrd acft to gliders and had flown 3 dual flts n N2885H on the morning of the accident with an instruction on board. The CFI then authorized him to fly his list solo flt and acft tkof obsvd the glider make what he considered a normal base leg followed by a flat skidding turn to final and subsequent overshooting of the extended centerline of the approach end of rwy 15. The plt then executed steep s-turns back towards the rwy during which the left wing struck a tree followed by the right wing and the acft cartwheeling to the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2885H
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS 2-33A
- Category
- Glider
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Warrenton Soaring Center
- Departed
- 9W0 · VA
- Destination
- 9W0 · Warrenton, VA
- Airport
- 9WO · Warrenton Air Park, runway 15, 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 346 total · 4 in this make and model · 204 as pilot in command · 44 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots, gusting 21
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IAD, 23 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.