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Event ATL83LA259

1983-07-07 DAMASCUS, Maryland, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N441UJ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHEMPP-HIRTH CIRRUS

Year of manufacture

1969 · 14 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690526

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5501F

Registrant of record

BRUCE ROBERT H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE GLIDER COLLIDED WITH A FENCE DURING AN OFF ARPT FORCED LANDING. THE PLT STATED THAT SHE DID NOT SEE THE POWER LINES UNTIL SHE WAS ON THE FINAL APPROACH. SHE MANEUVERED THE GLIDER TO MISS THE POWERLINES BUT WAS UNABLE TO MISS THE FENCE AND LANDED SHORT. SHE HAD BEEN FLYING IN THERMAL LIFT AND UPON ENCOUNTERING HEAVY SINK WAS FORCED TO LAND. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1983_ATL83LA259.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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