ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 235199
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| Date: | Friday 26 July 2019 |
| Time: | 14:00 |
| Type: |  Schempp-Hirth Ventus 2A |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N57LK |
| MSN: | 137 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2002 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 876 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Wurtsboro, NY -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Wurtsboro, NY (N82) |
| Wurtsboro, NY (N82) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot reported that, while being towed, the glider began to climb, and the canopy opened. The pilot released the glider from the tow airplane, and he reached up and closed the canopy. He decreased the glider's airspeed and made a 180° right turn to final. On final, the glider was high, and he deployed the airbrakes, but the canopy opened again. The pilot closed the canopy and held it shut with his left hand while trying to control the glider with his right hand, but the altitude decreased "very quickly." The glider's wingtip struck a shipping container just short of the runway. The glider sustained substantial damage to the left wing and the empennage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the glider that would have precluded normal operation.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to properly secure the glider’s canopy before flight, which resulted in it opening in flight and the pilot's inability to maintain an appropriate final approach path and altitude, which resulted in impact with a shipping container.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 19-Apr-2020 07:02 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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