- Date
- November 27, 1983, 12:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- California City, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N62BGBurkhart Grob G-103
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831127058889A
- Case key
- 24096
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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.
Undershoot
Distance - misjudgedCause
Airspeed - misjudgedCause
Altitude - misjudgedCause
Lack of total experience in type of aircraftFactor
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
According to the plt, he was turning to final approach when the glider's left wing struck the ground. Reportedly, he had gotten 'too low & slow.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N62BG
- Reported as
- Burkhart Grob G-103
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 3649
- Airframe hours
- 243
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aquarian Soaring
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 6, 1983 · 100 hours before
- Airport
- L71 · California City, runway 24, 6,000 × 70 ft, dirt
N62BGRegistered now · Burkhart Grob G 103 TWIN IIAirframe modelBurkhart Grob G 103 TWIN IIEngine 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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 63
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 166 total · 4 in this make and model · 134 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 2 knots
- Visibility
- 100 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.