chipsoars wrote:

Searched Schweizer Gliders 6/26/2005 to 1/1/1968 on the NTSB database.

Fatal 2-33

06/10/78 http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=40460&key=0
04/01/77 http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=56645&key=0
10/06/75 http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=50592&key=0
07/02/72 http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=65574&key=0 (2 fatals)
12/12/71 http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=63260&key=0


Cites need URL's. I added them.

Previous searchs on "2-33" returned zero fatals, possibly because of the
haphazard way in which the aircraft model designation is entered into
earlier FAA/NTSB records. The info can be laboriously picked out of 67
returned records, after searching for "glider", "Schweizer", and "fatal", as
'chipsoars' showed.

Another myth dispelled, but it doesn't mean that the 2-33 is not a useful
and relatively safe trainer.

On a search for "glider" and "fatal", 259 records are returned. Only five in
2-33's, and none of those since 1978, is very good for a numerous type (371
current US registrations) that sees so much use in training.


Jack