FTW86LRG31 · Rolladen-Schneider LS-6
Rolladen-Schneider LS-6 · Accident: undershoot during landing
From Garner Field (UVA) to Garner Field (UVA)
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW86LRG31
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Rolladen-Schneider LS-6
- Aircraft type
- Rolladen Schneider LS-6
- Category
- Glider
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N25SG
- Operator
- James Andrews,iii
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Garner Field (UVA), Uvalde, TXTo Garner Field (UVA), Uvalde, TX
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Undershoot
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Altitude, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Descent, misjudged
- Pilot in command › Diverted attention
- Pilot in command › Proper glidepath, not maintained
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Uvalde, TX, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
PILOT OF A ROLLADEN-SCHNEIDER LS-6 GLIDER, N25SG, IMPACTED TERRAIN SHORT OF RUNWAY AT UVALDE, TX AIRPORT. PILOT HELD U.S.-FOREIGN PRIVATE PILOT CERTIFICATION BASED ON GERMAN CERTIFICATION AND WAS REPRESENTING THE AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURER DURING GLIDER COMPETITION. THE PILOT ELECTED TO RETURN AND LAND FOR A PARACHUTE ADJUSTMENT. THE LANDING WAS DELAYED BY A DEPARTING AIRCRAFT. GLIDER WAS SUBSTANTIALLY DAMAGED. HOWEVER, THE PILOT ESCAPED INJURY. PLTS FLT TIME WAS NOT AVAILABLE/NOT REPORTED.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW86LRG31
- Event ID
- 20001213X34501
- Case number
- FTW86LRG31
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (5)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 769eeeb889d0ac6c6f50869fec693081da35c4ede4bf3e968182730c98d6e625; retrieved 2026-09-23T14:10:38.601Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: departure, destination. The narrative states the glider "IMPACTED TERRAIN SHORT OF RUNWAY AT UVALDE, TX AIRPORT" after the pilot "ELECTED TO RETURN AND LAND"; the recorded town VALDE is a misspelling of Uvalde. The narrative states the pilot "ELECTED TO RETURN AND LAND" and impacted terrain "SHORT OF RUNWAY AT UVALDE, TX AIRPORT"; the recorded town VALDE is a misspelling of Uvalde.