- Date
- May 11, 1985, 12:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Toughkenamon, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N2401WSchweizer SGS-1-26B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850511016369A
- Case key
- 35872
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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 was being towed for takeoff & had just become airborne when the canopy came open. The plt tried to latch the canopy, but was unable, so he released the glider from the tow plane. While the plt continued to try to latch the canopy, the glider went to the right of the rwy. He then turned back toward the rwy, but the glider was low & its left wing contacted the side of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2401W
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS-1-26B
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 347
- Engine
- None NONE, unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Brandywine Soaring Assoc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 2, 1984
- Airport
- N57Q · New Garden, runway 24, 3,400 × 50 ft, asphalt
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
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 23 total · 4 in this make and model · 9 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.