- Date
- May 23, 1993, 14:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Deer Park, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4321DApplebay Zuni
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 19, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930523016339A
- Case key
- 43032
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Probable cause
Improperly planned approach by the PIC.
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 PIC elected to make an off airport landing due to lack of thermal lift. He flew a traffic pattern for a landing in an open field, and lowered the landing gear and full flaps on final approach before a landing in the field was assured. When it was apparent the acft would undershoot the field, the PIC initiated a steep turn to avoid impact with trees at the edge of the field and the right wing impacted the ground while the glider was in a right banked attitude.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4321D
- Reported as
- Applebay Zuni
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 10
- Airframe hours
- 415
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Forney, George D.
- Registered owner
- Forney, George D.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 16, 1992 · 31 hours before
- Departed
- 07S
- Destination
- 07S
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 561 total · 175 in this make and model · 532 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SFF, 11 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.