- Date
- May 4, 1985, 14:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Barre, MA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4429WCentrair 101A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850504016819A
- Case key
- 35867
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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.
In flight encounter with weather
Weather condition - windshearFactor
Stall - inadvertentCause
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Wind information - not identifiedCause
Weather evaluation - not followedCause
In flight collision with object
Object - tree(s)Factor
Analysis
The acft encountered windshear during the approach to land and landed in trees. By the time the plt realized his situation it was too late and his wing tip hit a tree top. The acft camp to rest in trees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4429W
- Reported as
- Centrair 101A
- Category
- Glider
- Engine
- unknown 11, unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John Murray
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 14, 1985 · 43 hours before
- Airport
- Barre Hiller, runway 24, 3,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
N4429WRegistration cancelled Apr 7, 2011 · Centrair 101Airframe modelCentrair 101Engine modelAmateur-built UNKNOWN ENG
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
- 34
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 15 knots, gusting 30
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.