- Date
- May 1, 1968
- Place
- Friendswood, TX · FRIENDSWOOD, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N2480WSchweizer SGS233
- Status
- Completed · report July 2, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 110991
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1357 68/5/1 FRIENDSWOOD,TEX SCHWEIZER SGS233 CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 46, 10609 TIME - 1330 N2480W PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 3 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-MINOR OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - CLOVER TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: CONTROLLED TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB PROBABLE CAUSE(S) INSTRUMENTS/EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES - MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT: GLIDER LAUNCH/TOW EQUIPMENT MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - MATERIAL FAILURE REMARKS- ENG OF TOW CAR LOST POWER AT CRITICAL POINT OF LAUNCH.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2480W
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS233
- Category
- Glider
- Engine
- none
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Airport
- Clover
N2480WRegistration cancelled Feb 12, 2018 · Schweizer SGS 2-33Airframe modelSchweizer SGS 2-33Engine modelNONE
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.
Other investigations on N2480W · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.