- Date
- March 19, 1983, 15:50 local (20:50 UTC)
- Place
- Highsprings, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1975SMolino PIK 20
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830319008699A
- Case key
- 30858
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft crashed short of the runway during a pleasure flight. The pilot was not injured. The pilot stated that he descended below the tree line and encountered a wind shear. He traded altitude for airspeed and the acft encountered thetop wire of a fence. The acft continued on toward the intended point of landing knocking down 2 fence posts. The acft came to rest at the runways edge.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1975S
- Reported as
- Molino PIK 20
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 20033
- Airframe hours
- 592
- Engine
- NONE, unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Arthur B. Haseltine
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · April 28, 1982 · 45 hours before
- Airport
- 6J8 · Rudy'S Glider Port, runway 16, 3,000 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 64
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Expired
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 7,230 total · 127 in this make and model · 7,221 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 25 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.