- Date
- September 4, 1988, 13:40 local (18:40 UTC)
- Place
- Hinckley, IL
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N3613FSchweizer 2-33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 14163
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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
During the initial climbout on the dual instructional flight, as the glider was towed through approximately 50-100' AGL, the tow rope failed. The instructor pilot executed a hard forced landing at the edge of a cornfield located to the right side of the runway. Both pilots reported that the touchdown was abrupt, with 'higher than normal vertical velocity'.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3613F
- Reported as
- Schweizer 2-33A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 556
- Airframe hours
- 1,601
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Hinckley Soaring, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Hinckley Soaring Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 1988 · 58 hours before
- Departed
- 0C2 · Hinckley, IL
- Airport
- OC2 · Hinckley, runway 27, 2,640 × 100 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
- 54
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 5,931 total · 800 in this make and model · 4,480 as pilot in command · 56 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 12 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F