- Date
- May 8, 1982, 12:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Los Lunas, NM
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 2 uninjured; on the ground: 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N48032Blanik L-13
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 8, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820508071009A
- Case key
- 71489
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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
During landing the left wing struck a bystander who wandered onto the edge of the asphalt overrun taking photographs of the landing. There is a caution sign posted on the north access road of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N48032
- Reported as
- Blanik L-13
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 026035
- Airframe hours
- 730
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Etchison G. Lill
- Registered owner
- Etchison G. Lill
- Departed
- E98 · Los Lunas, NM
- Destination
- E98 · Los Lunas, NM
- Airport
- E98 · Mid Valley, runway 17, 4,425 × 50 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
- 24
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 788 total · 250 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N48032 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.