- Date
- August 6, 2022, 12:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Highland, IL
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N424BGBurkhart Grob Flugzeugbau G102 Club Astir Iiib
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of lift
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220806014189A
- Case key
- 105691
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The glider’s encounter with atmospheric conditions where the lift was not sufficient to maintain flight.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that, during the return flight to the airport, the glider encountered a higher descent rate than he had expected and that the glider did not have sufficient altitude to reach the airport. During the forced landing into a corn field, the fuselage sustained substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N424BG
- Reported as
- Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau G102 Club Astir Iiib
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 5548CB
- Airframe hours
- 4,150
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- St Louis Soaring Association Inc
- Registered owner
- St Louis Soaring Association Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 2022
- Departed
- H07 · Highland, IL
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- H07 · Highland, runway 18 /36, 2,200 × 100 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- None
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
- 64
- Injuries
- Serious
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 11, 2022
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 7,500 total · 5 in this make and model · 35 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 77 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.09 inHg
- Observed at
- KBLV, 15 nm away
- METAR
- KBLV 061756Z COR 18006KT 10SM SCT028 32/25 A3009 RMK AO2 SLP188 T03190252 10319 20245 50000 $ COR 1838
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 24, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.4 MB in all.
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 N424BG · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.