- Date
- September 7, 1992, 13:05 local (17:05 UTC)
- Place
- Blairstown, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7734SSchweizer 1-26D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920907042529A
- Case key
- 11844
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to use spoilers which resulted in a landing overrun. Contributing was the pilot's lack of familiarity with the aircraft.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
While attempting to land, the pilot could not get the spoilers to deploy on the glider. He stated he ran out of runway and could not land off the runway due to obstacles. The pilot said he tried to turn the glider at a low altitude to reverse direction and land on the runway. During the maneuver the right wing struck the ground and the glider cartwheeled. The pilot stated that he did not know, nor was told, about a button on the control wheel that needed to be pressed in order to allow spiler deployment. He stated on the pilot accident report form, 'understanding cockpit controls, especially differences from model to model' might have prevented this accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7734S
- Reported as
- Schweizer 1-26D
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 434
- Airframe hours
- 1,130
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ronald Schwartz
- Registered owner
- Ronald Schwartz
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 8, 1992 · 33 hours before
- Departed
- 1N7
- Airport
- 1N7 · Blairstown, runway 25, 2,990 × 70 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 72
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 12,477 total · 1,681 in this make and model · 12,477 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.