- Date
- September 16, 1991, 15:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Clifton Forge, VA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7LRRolladen-Schneider LS-4A
- Weather
- Not reported
- Status
- Completed · report February 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910916040079A
- Case key
- 11706
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudgement of altitude, distance and speed which resulted in landing overshoot.
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 was unable to continue flight after she ran out of thermal lift, so she attempted to land in a field. The plt reported that during the approach to the field, she turned from base to final too soon and consequently was too high. The field was overshot during the landing and the acft collided with a tree. The plt reported that during the approach to the field she turned from base to final too soon and consequently was too high.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7LR
- Reported as
- Rolladen-Schneider LS-4A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 4087
- Airframe hours
- 398
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Amanda S. Pratt
- Registered owner
- Amanda S. Pratt
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 11, 1991 · 16 hours before
- Departed
- New Castle, VA
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
- 28
- Certificate
- Private
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 261 total · 163 in this make and model · 12 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Not reported
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °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.
Other investigations on N7LR · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.