- Date
- October 5, 2025, 15:57 local (21:57 UTC)
- Place
- Moriarty, NM · Moriarty, NM, 1 mi E of 0E0
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N1095GGlasflugel STD Libelle 201B
- Defining event
- Enroute: Loss of lift
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 20, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20251005020909A
- Case key
- 201816
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The glider’s encounter with atmospheric conditions where lift was not sufficient to maintain flight.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that during the return flight to the airport, the glider did not have sufficient altitude to reach the airport, and he had to initiate an off airport landing. During the forced landing on rough terrain, the glider ground looped to the right and the landing gear collapsed. The glider sustained substantial damage to the landing gear attachment points and fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the glider that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1095G
- Reported as
- Glasflugel STD Libelle 201B
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 348
- Built
- 1972
- Airframe hours
- 2,676.2
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 2025
- Departed
- 0E0 · Moriarty, NM
- Airport
- 0E0 · Moriarty Muni, runway 08/26, 7,702 × 75 ft, dirt
- Equipment
- ADS-B
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
- 54
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Last flight review
- September 4, 2023
- Seat
- Single
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 170.4 total · 80.8 in this make and model · 149.6 as pilot in command · 8.5 in the last 90 days · 4.5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 13 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- K0E0, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR K0E0 062155Z AUTO 21013G20KT 10SM CLR 27/M05 A3010 RMK AO2 T02701051=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 20, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.9 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.