- Date
- September 4, 1983, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Durango, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7590Schweizer SGS 2-33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 16155
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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
After releasing from an aerial tow about 2,000 ft AGL, the plt was unable to find lifting thermals. The glider began to descend about 800 fpm so the plt maneuvered to return to the airstrip. The glider collided with several small trees short of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7590
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS 2-33A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 180
- Airframe hours
- 2,697
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Durango Soaring Assoc. Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 14, 1983 · 90 hours before
- Airport
- 9C08 · Val-Air, runway 17, 3,400 × 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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 200 total · 200 in this make and model · 2 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 75 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DRO
Other investigations on N7590 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.