- Date
- August 28, 1982, 16:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Elmira, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N65850Schweizer 2-33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 28, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820828042719A
- Case key
- 70583
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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
Altitude - misjudgedCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
The plt stated he was too high on base & started slipping to lose excessive altitude. He lost too much altitude & speed,striking the ground short of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N65850
- Reported as
- Schweizer 2-33A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 340
- Airframe hours
- 2,082
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Harris Hill Soaring
- Registered owner
- Harris Hill Soaring
- Departed
- Elmira, NY
- Destination
- Elmira, NY
- Airport
- Harris Hill, runway 33, 1,100 × 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
- 22
- Certificate
- Private
- Medical
- Unknown
- Flight hours
- 61 total · 31 in this make and model · 49 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 20 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 154 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.