- Date
- June 2, 1985, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Middletown, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N9JKSchweizer SGS-1-35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850602058459A
- Case key
- 35611
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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 - improperCause
Stall/spin - inadvertentCause
Forced landing
Hard landing
Analysis
The acft landed off the arpt after the plt lost alt in a spin. The plt was afraid that the glider would land short in trees so he landed on a highway. The hard lndg damaged the acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9JK
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS-1-35
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 18
- Airframe hours
- 135
- Engine
- None NONE, unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Leopold Schoenaur
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 4, 1984 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- 06N · Middletown, NY
- Airport
- 06B · Randall, runway 6, 3,000 × ft, concrete
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
- 61
- Certificates
- Private, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 946 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.