- Date
- March 28, 1987, 17:15 local (Mar 29, 1987, 01:15 UTC)
- Place
- Issaquah, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N33924Schweizer SGS 2-33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report May 9, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870328007649A
- Case key
- 40603
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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
During a local training flight a downdraft was encountered. At about two miles from the airport the acft was at about 200 feet MSL. The instructor plt decided to land the acft on a field. On short final the acft struck a barbed wire fence prior to touchdown.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N33924
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS 2-33A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 414
- Airframe hours
- 1,886
- Engine
- None NONE, unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Linn Emrich
- Registered owner
- Linn Emrich
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 1, 1987 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- 3WA1 · Issaquah, WA
- Airport
- 3WA1 · Seattle Skyport
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
- 38
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 481 total · 312 in this make and model · 405 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.