- Date
- August 7, 2026, 15:38 local (22:38 UTC)
- Place
- Floriston, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N17YCZaklad Szybowcowy Jezow PW-6U
- Defining event
- Enroute-cruise: Loss of lift
- 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
- 203569
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
- N17YC
- Reported as
- Zaklad Szybowcowy Jezow PW-6U
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 78.04.06
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Truckee Tahoe Soaring Assoc
- Registered owner
- Truckee Tahoe Soaring Assoc
- Departed
- TRK · Truckee, CA
- Airport
- TRK
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
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 93 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.30 inHg
- Observed at
- KTRK, 7 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KTRK 072250Z 00000KT 10SM FEW120 SCT190 34/02 A3030