CHI08CA202 · AB Sportine Aviacija Genesis 2
AB Sportine Aviacija Genesis 2 · Accident: collision with terrain/object (non-CFIT) during landing
From Beloit Airport (44C) to 44C
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI08CA202
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
AB Sportine Aviacija Genesis 2
- Aircraft type
- Ab Sportine Aviacija GENESIS 2
- 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
- N58RW
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Beloit Airport (44C), Beloit, WITo 44C
- 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
- Defining eventThe 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
- Collision with terrain/object (non-CFIT)
- 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
- Personnel issues › Psychological
- Personnel issues › Task performance
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The pilot obtained glider tow/support services at the departure airport for a local flight. While returning to the departure airport, the pilot provided radio transmissions announcing the airplane's position on downwind, base, and final segments of the visual approach to runway 07 (3,200 feet by 50 feet, asphalt). Upon touchdown, a member of the support service ground crew crossed the runway in a golf cart at about a 30 degree angle. The pilot turned the glider to avoid hitting the golf cart but the glider hit the golf cart with its left wing. The glider sustained substantial damage that included a cracked and delaminated left wing. The pilot and golf cart driver were uninjured. The golf cart was not equipped with a radio to monitor and provide information to airport traffic. Following the accident, the support services group on the airport has adopted the following procedures: use of radios by golf cart drivers while operating on airport movement areas, golf cart drivers are to stop and look both ways prior to crossing runways, and runways are no longer to be crossed at angles less than 90 degrees.
Probable cause
The inadequate visual lookout by the driver of the golf cart and the air/ground communications not available to the golf cart driver during movement onto an active runway while the glider was landing.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI08CA202
- Event ID
- 20080827X01334
- Case number
- CHI08CA202
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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, coordinates. 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: 02ca3ee20f3924fb37f29f87bd8342a52a66efaa150f2e7d8492cfe65bbeee79; retrieved 2026-09-15T10:06:57.551Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative and the aircraft's make and model, which establish these values: aircraft category. The narrative says "the glider was landing" after a glider tow (AB Sportine Genesis 2); the NTSB MDB codes it AIR (Airplane).