- Date
- March 19, 1988, 14:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Phelan, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3829ASchweizer SGS 1-26A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880319005959A
- Case key
- 25966
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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.
In flight collision with object
Weather condition - no thermal liftFactor
Weather evaluation - inadequateCause
Object - tree(s)Factor
Object - vehicleFactor
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3829A
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS 1-26A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 96
- Airframe hours
- 2,069
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ron Lopez
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 22, 1987 · 17 hours before
- Departed
- L53 · Adelanto, CA
N3829ARegistration cancelled Jan 19, 2010 · Schweizer SGS 1-26AAirframe modelSchweizer SGS 1-26AEngine modelNONE
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
- 28
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,328 total · 49 in this make and model · 1,243 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VCV
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.