- Date
- April 8, 1991, 14:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Hemet, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2032TSchweizer SGS 2-33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910408014369A
- Case key
- 27165
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Probable cause
The failure of the PIC to select a proper touch down point. Contributing to the accident was the lack of recent familiarity with the geographic layout of the landing area.
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 non-certificated student pilot was landing his glider in a dirt and grass area between two parallel runways. Recent rain had produced a growth of new grass in the landing area. The pilot had not landed at the airport in the last 30 days. The pilot was confused by the pattern of new grass in the landing area and touched down in an area of bare ground that appeared to be the proper landing zone, but was positioned too close to parked gliders. During the landing roll out, the right wing tip of his glider struck the left wing of a parked glider and then pivoted into the left side of a second parked glider. The pilot was not injured. All three gliders were substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2032T
- Reported as
- Schweizer SGS 2-33A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 462
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Michael & Julie Venable
- Registered owner
- Michael & Julie Venable
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Airport
- HMT · Hemet
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
- 38
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 22 total · 21 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N2032T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.