- Date
- December 26, 1966
- Place
- Torrey Pine, CA · TORREY PINE, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N8608RSchweizer I-26
- Status
- Completed · report December 1, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 119470
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4431 66/12/26 TORREY PINE,CALIF SCHWEIZER I-26 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 46, 90 TOTAL TIME - 1630 N8608R PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP HOURS, 6 IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - TORREY PINES TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT WEATHER - DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS WEATHER BRIEFING - NO RECORD OF BRIEFING RECEIVED WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE CLEAR UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS NONE VFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN NONE REMARKS- OVER EDGE OF BLUFF,STRONG UPDRAFT CAUGHT LEFT WING,FLIPPING GLIDER IN STEEP RIGHT TURN.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8608R
- Reported as
- Schweizer I-26
- Category
- Glider
- Engine
- none
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Torrey Pines
N8608RRegistered now · Schweizer SGS 1-26AAirframe modelSchweizer SGS 1-26AEngine modelAmateur-built UNKNOWN ENG
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