- Date
- December 23, 2017, 11:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Clermont, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N389BALet L 23 Super Blanik
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 27, 2018
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20171223023629A
- Case key
- 96536
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing flare.
Findings · 3
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 student pilot reported that, during the first solo landing, the glider was "not straight" for the flare, and she attempted to correct with right rudder. Subsequently, she overcorrected, and the glider veered right and struck a hangar. The glider sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and both wings. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the glider that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The student pilot reported that, during the first solo landing, the glider was "not straight" for the flare and she attempted to correct with right rudder. Subsequently, she over corrected, the glider veered right, and struck a hangar. The glider sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and both wings. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the glider that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N389BA
- Reported as
- Let L 23 Super Blanik (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 018803
- Built
- 2001
- Airframe hours
- 4,094
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 2017
- Departed
- 6FL0 · Groveland, FL
- Destination
- 6FL0 · Groveland, FL
- Airport
- 6FL0 · Seminole Lake, runway 18, 3,000 × 200 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- None
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
- 23
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 10 total · 7 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.23 inHg
- Observed at
- KISM, 22 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 15, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.5 MB 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.