- Date
- August 25, 1966
- Place
- Colorado Spgs, CO · COLORADO SPGS, CO
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6506DSchleicher K7B
- Status
- Completed · report March 23, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 122487
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0748 66/8/25 COLORADO SPGS COL SCHLEICHER K7B CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE 15, 101 TIME - 1610 N6506D PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 61 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - BLK FOREST GLIDER TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION STALL IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6506D
- Reported as
- Schleicher K7B
- Category
- Glider
- Engine
- none
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Blk Forest Glider
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