- Date
- June 11, 1989, 13:10 local (18:10 UTC)
- Place
- Stanton, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N83GBGlaser-Dirks DG-101
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 19, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890611015169A
- Case key
- 34808
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain control of the glider. Contributing factors were: improper use of flight controls by the pilot and his lack of total experience in the type of glider.
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.
Analysis
The pilot said that after a normal lift-off, the glider bounced, causing it to rise rapidly to about 50 feet AGL. He elected to release from the tow aircraft and land straight ahead. However, the right wing struck the ground and the glider came to rest inverted with substantial damage. The pilot had a total of 35 hours in gliders of which 2 hours were in this make and model of glider.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N83GB
- Reported as
- Glaser-Dirks DG-101
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- E-133
- Airframe hours
- 110
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Shallbetter, Daniel G.
- Registered owner
- Shallbetter, Daniel
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · April 25, 1989 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- SYN · Stanton, MN
- Airport
- SYN · Stanton, runway 18, 2,582 × 300 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
- 33
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 225 total · 2 in this make and model · 180 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MSP, 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.