ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 66148
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| Date: | Thursday 2 September 2004 |
| Time: | 14:22 |
| Type: |  Schweizer SGS 2-33A |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N2873H |
| MSN: | 543 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Maricopa, Arizona -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Maricopa, AZ (E68) |
| Maricopa, AZ (E68) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The glider landed hard on touchdown. The student pilot encountered what witnesses described as a "really large" dust devil during the landing flare. Thereafter, the glider's nose pitched downward, and the glider impacted the ground hard. The student's traffic pattern approach to runway 24C had been normal. The prevailing wind was from 240 degrees, between 5 and 10 knots.
Probable Cause: the pilot's encounter with a dust devil during landing flare, which resulted in a hard touchdown.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB: https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20040915X01439&key=1
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Jul-2009 03:37 | DColclasure | Added |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:25 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 07-Dec-2017 18:22 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Cn, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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