Groveland, FL, USA
N72EJ
Grob G103 TWIN ASTIR
The flight instructor and student pilot were conducting an instructional flight. The flight instructor reported that, during the landing, he told the student, “I have the flight controls”; however, the student did not relinquish them. As a result, the instructor was unable to control the glider, which resulted in a hard landing and the student pilot sustaining serious injuries.
On September 22, 2018, about 1500 eastern daylight time, a Grob G103 Twin Astir glider, N72EJ, sustained minor damage when it was involved in an accident in Groveland, Florida. The flight instructor was not injured, and the student pilot was seriously injured. The glider was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. The flight instructor reported that, during landing, he told the student pilot, “I have the controls”; however, the student pilot did not relinquish them. The flight instructor added that he was unable to control the glider, which resulted in a hard landing and the student pilot sustaining serious injuries.
The student pilot's failure to relinquish the flight controls during landing when the flight instructor told him to do so, and the instructor’s subsequent inability to properly control the glider, which led to a hard landing.
Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database
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