- Date
- August 16, 1992, 12:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lake Village, IN
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N163MFFrost Briegleb/BG-12A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920816031559A
- Case key
- 15250
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Probable cause
Inadvertent stall and spin with inadequate altitude for recovery.
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 on his first flight in this model glider and the launch was by ground tow. The pilot stated the glider climbed to 200 feet and 50 knots and wouldn't climb or accelerate any more. As he released tow rope, he realized that he had entered a spin. Altitude was not sufficient for full recovery.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N163MF
- Reported as
- Frost Briegleb/BG-12A (BRIEGLEB/B)
- Category
- Glider, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 12007
- Airframe hours
- 41
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kortokrax, Kristian Kevin
- Registered owner
- Mussman, Craig L
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · July 7, 1992
- Airport
- C98 · Lake Village, In, runway 36, 2,480 × 150 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
- 42
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 856 total · 782 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 1.2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GYY, 29 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.