- Date
- June 11, 1991, 19:00 local (Jun 12, 1991, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Highland, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7634Schweizer SGS 1-34
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910611021759A
- Case key
- 15093
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Probable cause
The pilot misjudged his touchdown point.
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 pilot was making an approach to a runway on which another glider had landed & had stopped about 1/4 of the way down the runway. The pilot tried to land behind the other glider but landed short of the runway and hit a dirt mound.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7634
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS 1-34
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 14
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- St. Louis Soaring Assn, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- H07 · Highland-Winet, runway 18, 2,250 × 270 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
- Certificate
- Private
- Medical
- Unknown
- Flight hours
- 53 total · 7 in this make and model · 32 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BLV, 17 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.