- Date
- September 29, 1984, 15:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Brigham City, UT
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N8JNRolladen-Schneider LS3
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840929052379A
- Case key
- 16257
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft impacted on a mountain ridge during a 60 deg left bank. The plt had been in radio communication with another glider plt near his flt area. Just prior to the accident he radioed that he was going around a mountain point in search of a thermal. When no more communications were heard, the accompanying flt flew around the point & found the accident wreckage. The wreckage was intact with extensive damage to the fwd fuselage. The ELT in the plts compartment was shattered.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8JN
- Reported as
- Rolladen-Schneider LS3
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 3276
- Airframe hours
- 640
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard Apgar
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 10, 1984 · 56 hours before
- Departed
- BMC · Brigham City, UT
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
- 41
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,650 total · 111 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- 0DG, 18 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.