# NTSB LAX85LA233: Schweizer SGS1-36, N36156, Hemet, CA, April 30, 1985

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report
- Date: April 30, 1985, 15:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place: Hemet, CA
- Location: 33.7417° N, 117.0075° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs from NTSB’s distance and direction from HEMET-RYAN (HMT), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.7417&lon=-117.0075&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Completed
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 24710
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=LAX85LA233
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/24710/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX85LA233

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- On ground/water collision with object, landing - flare/touchdown
  - flt control syst,wing slat system - deployed inadvertently (cause)
  - weather condition - turbulence (contributing factor)
  - object - fence

## Analysis

THIS WAS THE FIRST FLIGHT AFTER A COCKPIT CHECK-OUT IN THE SCHWEIZER SGC 1-36. THE PILOT RELEASED FROM THE TOW PLANE WHEN HE REALIZED THAT THE SPOILERS WERE DEPLOYED AND LANDED SHORT OF THE RUNWAY.  THE PILOT REPORTED THAT THE SPOILER HANDLE IN THIS MODEL OPERATES DIFFERENTLY FROM ANY OTHER GLIDER. HE COMMENTED THAT A GUSTY WIND SHEAR CONDITION EXISTED AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N36156](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N36156), registered now, S/N 5 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: SCHWEIZER SGS1-36
- Registry model: [Schweizer SGS 1-36](https://openairdocs.org/model/schweizer-sgs-1-36) (registry code 8050153) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [NONE](https://openairdocs.org/engine/none) (registry code 00000, none) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Glider
- Serial number: 5
- Airframe hours: 350
- Engines: unknown
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Personal, Part 91
- Operator: Sailplane Enterprises
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Last inspection: 100 hour, February 1, 1985, 28 hours before
- Departed: HMT
- Airport: HMT, Hemet

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 72; commercial; airplane ratings: single-engine land, multi-engine sea, single-engine sea, multi-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 2, valid medical--w/ waivers/lim; seat: center; flight hours: 15,000 total, 1 in this make and model, 65 in the last 90 days

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: 225° at 15 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility: 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 81 °F

## FAA reports on this event (1)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 19850430016769A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19850430016769A), Apr 30, 1985: Scwzer SGS136, Hemet, CA, Substantial damage. Spoilers inadvertently deployed after takeoff, would not retract. Cut away, landed on racetrack, wing hit a fence.

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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