- Date
- October 10, 2026, 16:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Elmira, NY
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N521HHSchleicher ASK-21
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of lift
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Case key
- 204006
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N521HH
- Reported as
- Schleicher ASK-21
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Harris Hill Soaring Corp
- Registered owner
- Harris Hill Soaring Corp
N521HHRegistered now · Schleicher ASK-21Airframe modelSchleicher ASK-21Engine modelAmateur-built UNKNOWN ENG
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.
Weather
- Wind
- 120° at 4 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- 2 nm away