- Date
- May 31, 1990, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Warrenton, VA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2958HSchweizer SGS-126E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900531018219A
- Case key
- 11598
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Probable cause
The pilot misjudged his landing approach.
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 stated that as he turned from base to final, he realized that the glider was too low to reach the runway. The left wing struck the top of a tree and the glider fell to the ground. The glider pilot reported 36 hours total fligt experience.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2958H
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS-126E
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 688
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Goehring, Jack J.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- 9WO · Warrenton Airpark, runway 4, 2,215 × 70 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Private
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 36 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IAD
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.