- Date
- August 28, 1988, 17:00 local (Aug 29, 1988, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Red Mountain, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N300YSchleicher ASW-20BL
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880828036269A
- Case key
- 25739
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
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.
Loss of control - in flight
In-flight planning/decision - improperFactor
Load jettison - not performedFactor
Airspeed - misjudgedCause
Stall - inadvertentCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Aircraft
- Registration
- N300Y
- Reported as
- Schleicher ASW-20BL
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 20658
- Airframe hours
- 500
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Skovgaard, Max Orsos
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 1988 · 46 hours before
- Departed
- L71 · California City, CA
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 55
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 909 total · 400 in this make and model · 856 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 24,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 100 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- NID, 20 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.