- Date
- July 15, 1984, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Thomaston, CT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N65805Schweizer SGS 2-33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840715070279A
- Case key
- 35707
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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.
Analysis
The glider made an off-arpt landing after encountering unexpected strong head winds in a rapidly changing flow of marineair. The acft cleared obtacles on final but yawed and landed in a crab condition damaging the fuselage and wing tip wheel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N65805
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS 2-33A
- Category
- Glider
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Connecticut Soaring Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Waterbury, CT
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
- Certificate
- Flight instructor
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 1,200 total · 600 in this make and model · 1,150 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 20 knots, gusting 30
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.