- Date
- July 31, 1992, 07:20 local (14:20 UTC)
- Place
- Ephrata, WA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3907ASchweizer SGU 2-22CK
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 42869
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Probable cause
The pilot misjudged the landing flare. Factors include a lack of total pilot expereince.
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 student pilot of the SGU-2-22 glider touched down off to the side of the taxiway, which was being used as a runway for the glider activity. When the aircraft bounced back into the air, she attempted a recovery, but landed in the dirt beside the taxiway, and lost control of the aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3907A
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGU 2-22CK
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 66
- Airframe hours
- 977
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Civil Air Patrol Inc
- Registered owner
- Civil Air Patrol Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 17, 1992 · 11 hours before
- Airport
- EPH · Ephrata Municipal Airport, runway 11, 6,000 × 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
- Age
- 15
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 5 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
Other investigations on N3907A · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.