- Date
- May 28, 1973
- Place
- Elsinore, CA · ELSINORE, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N17961Schweizer 2-33A
- Status
- Completed · report October 18, 1973
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19730528020119A
- Case key
- 189917
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2509 73/5/28 ELSINORE,CALIF SCHWEIZER 2-33A CR- 0 1 0 INSTRUCTIONAL STUDENT, AGE 43, 13 TOTAL TIME - 1205 N17961 PX- 0 0 0 TRAINING HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SKYLARK GLIDER PT DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION ELSINORE,CALIF LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: WIRES/POLES LANDING: TRAFFIC PATTERN-CIRCLING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN FACTOR(S) PERSONNEL - OPERATIONAL SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL: INADEQUATE FLIGHT TRAINING-PROCEDURES TERRAIN - HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS REMARKS- PLT HI ON APCH,MADE 360DEG TURN.UN TO MAKE AIRPORT,HIT POLE IN FLD.NO INST IN OFF-AIRPORT LNDGS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N17961
- Reported as
- Schweizer 2-33A
- Category
- Glider
- Engine
- none
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Skylark Glider Pt
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Other investigations on N17961 · 1
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