Glider landed in a field.
Date: 04-JUL-22
Time: 20:15:00Z
Regis#: N249AF
Aircraft Make: SCHWEIZER
Aircraft Model: SGS1
Event Type: ACCIDENT
Highest Injury: NONE
Aircraft Missing: No
Damage: SUBSTANTIAL
Activity: PERSONAL
Flight Phase: EN ROUTE (ENR)
Operation: 91
City: WINDSOR
State: VIRGINIA
ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY, Virginia (WRIC) — A glider crashed into a pine tree thicket in Isle of Wight County but the pilot was uninjured, according to Virginia State Police.
At around 4 p.m. on Monday, July 4, state troopers were called to investigate a plane crash on Iron Mine Springs Road near the Tidewater Soaring Society.
According to police, a glider — an aircraft pulled behind another aircraft until released to glide on air currents — was attempting to land in a grassy field when it lost altitude and crashed in a pine tree thicket.
The pilot — 78-year-old Raymond Douglas Blake Jr. of Chesapeake — was reportedly not injured.
The sudden loss of altitude is believed to have been due to displacement of air currents, according to police.
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