- Date
- March 27, 1988, 10:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Warner Springs, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2655HSchweizer SGS 2-33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 28, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880327007419A
- Case key
- 25976
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Undershoot
Proper glidepath - not maintainedCause
Distance - misjudgedCause
Airspeed - misjudgedCause
On ground/water collision with object
Object - building(nonresidential)
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2655H
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS 2-33A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 455
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mcdonald, James P.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CL35 · Warner Springs, CA
- Destination
- CL35
- Airport
- CL35 · Warner Springs
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
- 24
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 675 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CRQ, 31 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.