- Date
- April 28, 1984, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Colts Neck, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N24876Bryan RS-15
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840428014629A
- Case key
- 35546
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Analysis
During arrival to land, the plt circled over the arpt while gliders were being removed from the active rwy. He then made a tight downwind leg & started a 180 deg apch from 200 ft at 55 KTS. He stated that the 'roll rate (to the left) was rapid and by the time I had it stopped bank angle was approx 60 deg ...'. The glider then stalled & collided with the ground, left wing first.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24876
- Reported as
- Bryan RS-15
- Category
- Glider, amateur-built
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Angus Mc Kinnon
- Registered owner
- Eugene L. Krasnoff
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 10, 1983 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- N61 · Colts Neck, NJ
- Airport
- N61 · Colts Neck, runway 7, 2,569 × 125 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 54
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,121 total · 142 in this make and model · 1,091 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 131 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 4 knots, gusting 4
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
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