- Date
- June 30, 1968
- Place
- Finleyville, PA · FINLEYVILLE, PA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N68580Nelson PG185B
- Status
- Completed · report August 22, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 109849
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1970 68/6/30 FINLEYVILLE,PA NELSON PG185B CR- 0 1 0 MISCELLANEOUS PRIVATE, AGE 56, 6125 TIME - 1630 N68580 PX- 0 0 1 EXPERIMENTATION TOTAL HOURS, 75 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - FINLEYVILLE TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION STALL LANDING: TRAFFIC PATTERN-CIRCLING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED FACTOR(S) WEATHER - DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS WEATHER BRIEFING - NO RECORD OF BRIEFING RECEIVED WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE CLEAR UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS NONE VFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN NONE REMARKS- POWERED GLIDER.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68580
- Reported as
- Nelson PG185B
- Category
- Glider
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Finleyville
N68580Registration cancelled Aug 12, 1980 · Nelson PG-185-BAirframe modelNelson PG-185-BEngine modelNelson H-44-54-59-63
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.