- Date
- September 30, 2017, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hampshire, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N260BALet L 23 Super Blanik
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 15, 2017
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20170930014259A
- Case key
- 96123
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Probable cause
The pilot’s improper landing flare and subsequent failure to maintain directional control during landing.
Findings · 4
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The glider pilot reported that, while in the base leg in the traffic pattern, the glider was "fast and too high." He added that, during the landing, he landed long, the glider ran off the end of the runway, and the left wing struck a storage trailer parked on the left. The glider sustained substantial damage to the left wing and fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the glider that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The glider pilot reported that, during the base leg in the traffic pattern, the glider was "fast and too high." He added that, during the landing, he landed long, ran off the end of the runway, and the left wing struck a storage trailer parked on the left. The glider sustained substantial damage to the left wing and fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the glider that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N260BA
- Reported as
- Let L 23 Super Blanik (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 928010
- Built
- 1993
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Sky Soaring Inc
- Registered owner
- Sky Soaring Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 55LL · Hampshire, IL
- Destination
- 55LL · Hampshire, IL
- Airport
- 55LL · Sky Soaring, runway 27, 3,000 × 100 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- 77
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Last flight review
- August 20, 2016
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 840 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.35 inHg
- Observed at
- KDKB, 16 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 20, 2017, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 809 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.