- Date
- May 5, 1985, 13:42 local (19:42 UTC)
- Place
- Colorado Spring, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2477WSchweizer SGS 2-32
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850505017729A
- Case key
- 16672
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The glider collided with a parked acft following a loss of directional control during the landing roll. The plt reported the left wing dipped during the landing roll because of the x-wind. The left wing tip wheel dug into an area of soft sand beside the rwy and the wheel snagged a tow rope which was lying along the edge of the rwy. The glider was pulled aprx 30 degs to the left and impacted the parked acft. The wing span of the glider is wider than the width of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2477W
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS 2-32
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 51
- Airframe hours
- 6,835
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Wave Flights, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 15, 1984 · 71 hours before
- Airport
- Black Forest, runway 17, 5,000 × ft, asphalt
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
- 65
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 92 total · 28 in this make and model · 38 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N2477W · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.