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Fatal accident near Wenatchee, WA
Surprisingly no one has posted this before now. There is a high plateau
just north of the airport. A basalt cliff drops several hundred feet to the valley (and airport) below. Most soaring is done on the plateau. There is a temptation to try to squirt over the rim if you get low, even though there are numerous landable fields on the plateau. No retrieve (avoided) is worth risking your life for, especially not in this situation (if this, in fact, is what happened). Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------- NTSB Identification: SEA05LA114 14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation Accident occurred Saturday, June 11, 2005 in Wenatchee, WA Aircraft: Avia Stroitel AC-4, registration: N1198Z Injuries: 1 Fatal. This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. On June 11, 2005, at an estimated 1415 Pacific daylight time, an Avia Stroitel AC-4 glider, N1198Z, was destroyed when it impacted terrain near Wenatchee, Washington. The student pilot, the sole occupant in the aircraft, was fatally injured. Cascade Soaring Society, Inc., was operating the glider under CFR 14 Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the local, solo, instructional flight. The flight originated from Wenatchee, Washington, approximately 30 minutes before the accident; no flight plan was filed. The pilot's instructor said that the student pilot was scheduled to fly a one hour flight. When he did not return, a search airplane departed and found the glider on the back side of a mountain ridge approximately 3 nautical miles from the airport. The instructor said that the student pilot had soloed the L-13 Blanik on several occasions, but this was the student's first solo flight in the AC-4. |
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That one was about 10 miles to the north over the high point of the
ridge south of Waterville. |
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