- Date
- September 27, 1986, 15:40 local (22:40 UTC)
- Place
- Palm Springs, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N2673HSchweizer SGS-1-35C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860927046969A
- Case key
- 24947
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Analysis
During a pleasure flight, the acft was not getting the lift required to maintain alt. The plt decided to return to the arpt, however, enroute the plt realized that he would not make it back to the rwy. The plt decided to land in an east west direction on a sandy area and did not realize until on final approach that he had a considerable crosswind. On short final the nose of the acft raised, the left wing dropped and the acft entered a spin. The acft collided with the terrain in a nose down attitude.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2673H
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS-1-35C
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 73
- Airframe hours
- 344
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Manfred Rudolph Leniz
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 27, 1986
- Departed
- HMT · Hemet, CA
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 121 total · 9 in this make and model · 9 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 35 knots, gusting 50
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.