- Date
- July 5, 1992, 15:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Manchester, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2524HSchweizer SGS 2-33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 23, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920705023509A
- Case key
- 15486
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper inflight planning/decisions, failure to make a precautionary landing when he realized he was too low to reach the airport, and attempting to stretch his glidepath to reach the runway.
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 of the accident glider realized he was too low for a normal approach to runway 36 as he neared his home airport from the north. He elected to land straight in on runway 18 and was attempting to stretch his glidepath in order to reach it when he collided with the airport boundary fence and a tree which was on the edge of the property. The airplane came to rest on the airport facing in a northerly direction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2524H
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS 2-33A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 454
- Airframe hours
- 2,104
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Kittyhawk Soaring Club, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Kittyhawk Soaring Club, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 22, 1992 · 38 hours before
- Airport
- 75G · Rossettie, runway 18, 2,465 × 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Expired
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 122 total · 13 in this make and model · 64 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JXN, 20 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.