- Date
- May 16, 1964
- Place
- Bartow, FL · BARTOW, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N2751RSchweizer SG526B
- Status
- Completed · report August 26, 1964
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 185058
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0391 64/5/16 BARTOW FLA SCHWEIZER SG526B CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE UNK/NR, TIME - UNK/NR N2751R PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP 383 TOTAL HOURS, 2 IN DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - BARTOW TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT-INADVERTENTLY ACTIVATED TOW RELEASE. REMARKS- PILOT ACTUATED TOW RELEASE INSTEAD OF SPOILER
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2751R
- Reported as
- Schweizer SG526B
- Category
- Glider
- Engine
- none
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Bartow
N2751RRegistration cancelled Dec 4, 2018 · Schweizer SGS 1-26BAirframe modelSchweizer SGS 1-26BEngine modelNONE
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