- Date
- June 13, 1988, 12:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Westcliffe, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N81940Hall HP-18
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 9, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 17512
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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
The plt said his glider was being towed for takeoff from a dry, dusty, grass strip. He said the tow plane blew up the dust and he was unable to see to maintain alignment with the 75 ft wide strip. There was a drop off on the lt side of the strip and tall grass along the rt side. The acft drifted to the rt, the rt wing hit the tall grass and the acft spun around resulting in damage to the tail.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N81940
- Reported as
- Hall HP-18
- Category
- Glider, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 92
- Airframe hours
- 90
- Engine
- Unknown UNKNOWN, unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Landl, Karl G.
- Registered owner
- Landl, Karl G.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1988 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- NONE
- Airport
- NONE · Lake Creek, runway 4, 4,000 × 75 ft, dirt
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 621 total · 91 in this make and model · 577 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F