- Date
- June 19, 1985, 15:10 local (19:10 UTC)
- Place
- Waitsfield, VT
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N240WTSchempp-Hirth VENTUS-B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 35568
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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.
Loss of control - in flight
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Analysis
This glider was involved in a soaring championship course. About 52 minutes after starting the course witnesses observed the aircraft maneuvering for a landing on an open field. While in a steep bank the aircraft stalled and impacted the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N240WT
- Reported as
- Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 6/1
- Airframe hours
- 382
- Engine
- unknown UNK, unknown
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- David J. Shapiro
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 7, 1985 · 17 hours before
- Departed
- QB7 · Warren, VT
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Certificate
- Private
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Center
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 286 total · 198 in this make and model · 269 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 10 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft broken