- Date
- July 24, 1983, 15:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Jacumba, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N53619Laister LK10
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 23800
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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
The acft struck a bush during a landing short of the rwy. The instructor in the rear seat noted that the airspeed indicator at that position did not register below 60 mph by design. The instructor had no recent experience in this makeof acft and had no feeling for airspeed in it. He saw the acft was low and slow and reached to close the dive brakes as the acft started to settle. The acft impacted a bush with the left wing and groundlooped coming to rest short of rwy 25.the instructor observed that there were wind shear conditions at the time and gusts to 20 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N53619
- Reported as
- Laister LK10
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 48
- Airframe hours
- 717
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Fronius Fronius
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 1983 · 9 hours before
- Airport
- L78 · Jacumba, runway 25, 2,985 × 133 ft, dirt
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
- 31
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 419 total · 71 in this make and model · 400 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 10 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 100 °F, dew point -0 °F