NYC82DA129 · I.C.A. Brasov IS-28B2
Sugarbush Soaring I.C.A. Brasov IS-28B2 · Accident: overrun during landing
From WARREN, VT to WARREN, VT
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC82DA129
- 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
I.C.A. Brasov IS-28B2
- Aircraft type
- I C A Brasov IS-28
- 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
- N97VY
- Operator
- Sugarbush Soaring
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From WARREN, VTTo WARREN, VT
- 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 · landing roll
- 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
- Overrun
- 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 › Lack of familiarity with aircraft
- Pilot in command › Lowering of flaps, inadvertent use
- Pilot in command › Speed brakes, not used
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Warren, VT, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT HAD LITTLE OR NO PREVIOUS FLIGHT TIME IN THIS ROMANIAN BUILT GLIDER. HE REPORTED DEPARTING FROM AN AIRPORT LOCATED ON THE LEE SIDE OF THE SUGARBUSH MOUNTAINS. HE STATED THAT A STRONG WEST WIND PRODUCED A TURBULENT ROTOR NEAR THE AIRPORT AND THE SURFACE WINDS WERE FROM THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 GUSTING 20 KTS. ABOUT 1.5 HRS AFTER TAKEOFF, HE ENCOUNTER SIGNIFICANT LIFT AND THEN A TURBULENT DESCENT AS HE WAS MANEUVERING TO LAND. WHILE TURNING FINAL, THE LIFT INCREASED AND HE USED WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS THE DIVE BRAKES. HE ALSO SLIPPED THE GLIDER, BUT WAS STILL 200 FT TOO HIGH AT THE THRESHOLD, SO HE MADE A 360 DEGREE TURN. AFTER THE TURN, THE ALTITUDE WAS STILL HIGH, SO HE SLIPPED TO THE LEFT AND RIGHT. THE GLIDER TOUCHED DOWN FAST NEAR THE DEPARTURE END OF THE RUNWAY, THEN OVERRAN AND HIT BUSHES. THE PILOT STATED THAT THE FLAP HANDLE WAS LOCATED WHERE THE DIVE BRAKE HANDLE WAS LOCATED, IN OTHER GLIDERS HE HAD FLOWN. HE BELIEVED HE FAILED TO ACTIVATE THE DIVE BRAKES ON FINAL.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC82DA129
- Event ID
- 20020917X03939
- Case number
- NYC82DA129
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- 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: 61fe71746a7703a3c19445e7324f292be0347da5b87850f1a5a72370a6501e8d; retrieved 2026-09-24T02:55:17.434Z.