# NTSB CHI08CA202: AB Sportine Aviacija Genesis 2, N58RW, Beloit, WI, July 5, 2008

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Data collection · Final report
- Date: July 5, 2008, 15:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place: Beloit, WI
- Coordinates: 42.507499, -88.968055
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.5075&lon=-88.9681&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Landing-landing roll: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT) ](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report August 28, 2008
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 68735
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=CHI08CA202
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/68735/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI08CA202

## Probable cause

The inadequate visual lookout by the driver of the golf cart and the air/ground communications not available to the golf cart driver during movement onto an active runway while the glider was landing.

## Findings

NTSB's coded findings; those marked are part of the probable cause.

- [Object/animal/substance: ground vehicle](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03022025): Environmental issues › Physical environment · Not specified (probable cause); cases with it: [AB Sportine Aviacija GENESIS 2, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03022025/cases.md?model=05606KT), [All aircraft, 132 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03022025/cases.md)
- [Communication (personnel): lack of communication](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063510): Personnel issues › Task performance · Ground crew (probable cause); cases with it: [AB Sportine Aviacija GENESIS 2, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063510/cases.md?model=05606KT), [All aircraft, 84 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063510/cases.md)
- [Attention/monitoring: monitoring environment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021545): Personnel issues › Psychological · Ground crew (probable cause); cases with it: [AB Sportine Aviacija GENESIS 2, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021545/cases.md?model=05606KT), [All aircraft, 809 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021545/cases.md)

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Landing-landing roll: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT) ](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470) (defining event); cases with it: [AB Sportine Aviacija GENESIS 2, 3 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470/sequence.md?model=05606KT), [All aircraft, 10,189 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470/sequence.md)

## Analysis

The pilot obtained glider tow/support services at the departure airport for a local flight. While returning to the departure airport, the pilot provided radio transmissions announcing the airplane's position on downwind, base, and final segments of the visual approach to runway 07 (3,200 feet by 50 feet, asphalt). Upon touchdown, a member of the support service ground crew crossed the runway in a golf cart at about a 30 degree angle. The pilot turned the glider to avoid hitting the golf cart but the glider hit the golf cart with its left wing. The glider sustained substantial damage that included a cracked and delaminated left wing. The pilot and golf cart driver were uninjured. The golf cart was not equipped with a radio to monitor and provide information to airport traffic. Following the accident, the support services group on the airport has adopted the following procedures: use of radios by golf cart drivers while operating on airport movement areas, golf cart drivers are to stop and look both ways prior to crossing runways, and runways are no longer to be crossed at angles less than 90 degrees.

## Factual narrative

The pilot obtained glider tow/support services from Sylvania Soaring Adventure, Inc. at the departure airport for a local flight. While returning to the departure airport, the pilot provided radio transmissions announcing the airplane's position on downwind, base, and final segments of the visual approach to runway 07 (3,200 feet by 50 feet, asphalt). Upon touchdown, a member of the support service ground crew crossed the runway in a golf cart at about a 30 degree angle. The pilot turned the glider to avoid hitting the golf cart but the glider hit the golf cart with its left wing. The glider sustained substantial damage that included a cracked and delaminated left wing. The pilot and golf cart driver were uninjured. The golf cart was not equipped with a radio to monitor and provide information to airport traffic. Following the accident, Sylvania Soaring Adventure, Inc., has adopted the following procedures: use of radios by golf cart drivers while operating on airport movement areas, golf cart drivers are to stop and look both ways prior to crossing runways, and runways are no longer to be crossed at angles less than 90 degrees.

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N58RW](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N58RW), registered now, S/N 2014, built 1999 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: AB Sportine Aviacija Genesis 2
- Registry model: [AB Sportine Aviacija GENESIS 2](https://openairdocs.org/model/ab-sportine-aviacija-genesis-2) (registry code 05606KT) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [NONE](https://openairdocs.org/engine/none) (registry code 00000, none) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 2014
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Personal, Part 91
- Registered owner: Pilot
- Airworthiness certificate: Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed: 44C, Beloit, WI
- Destination: 44C

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 53; private; flight hours: 210 total, 104 in this make and model, 7 in the last 90 days, 6 in the last 30 days

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day

## FAA reports on this event (1)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 20080705843549A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20080705843549A), Jul 5, 2008: Amtr GENESIS2, Beloit, WI, Substantial damage. (-23) On July 5, 2008 at 1515 CDT an ab sportine aviacija genesis 2 glider registered to [privacy data omitted] of new berlin, Wisconsin colided with a tow…

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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