- Date
- July 7, 2026, 10:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Boulder, CO
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2793HSchweizer SGS 2-33A
- Defining event
- Landing: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 203441
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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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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2793H
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS 2-33A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 533
- Built
- 1978
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Journeys Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- BDU · Boulder Municipal Airport, runway 8G/26G, 4,100 × 20 ft, grass/turf
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.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.15 inHg
- Observed at
- KBDU, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KBDU 071635Z AUTO 03004KT 10SM CLR 28/08 A3015 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT N