- Date
- June 21, 2025, 17:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Midlothian, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N852BGBurkhart Grob G-103A Twin II Acro
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 17, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20250621013889A
- Case key
- 200421
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Findings · 2
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 student pilot reported that, during the landing flare, the glider experienced a sudden loss of lift. The glider landed hard, which resulted in substantial damage to the lower fuselage of the glider. The student pilot stated that there were no mechanical anomalies that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N852BG
- Reported as
- Burkhart Grob G-103A Twin II Acro
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 34014-K-247
- Built
- 1985
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Aerobatic; Standard, Other
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- JWY · Mid-Way Regional Airport, runway 18, 6,500 × 100 ft, asphalt
- 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
- 34
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Student, Foreign, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 20, 2025
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 393 total · 6 in this make and model · 285 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KJWY
- METAR
- KJWY 212155Z AUTO 19016KT 9SM CLR 33/22 A2998 RMK AO2 T03320218 $
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 17, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.3 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.