- Date
- December 29, 1984, 14:50 local (19:50 UTC)
- Place
- Orlando, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1229SSchweizer 2-33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19841229017889A
- Case key
- 31335
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft was flared for landing about 1/2 way down the rwy at excessive airspeed. The plt stated that as the acft touched down, it bounced into the air and impacted trees at 10-15 ft AGL. The spoilers were found in a retracted position after the accident. This was a supervised solo training flt. The student plt had logged less than an hour of PIC flt time. The plt later wrote a report in which he stated that 'I had reversed the spoiler controls in my mind. Wheni thought I had then full open, they were actually closed.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1229S
- Reported as
- Schweizer 2-33A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 214
- Airframe hours
- 2,513
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Elizabeth B. Burbank
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 1984 · 53 hours before
- Departed
- X30 · Orlando, FL
- Airport
- X30 · Orlando West, runway 18, 2,430 × 150 ft, grass/turf
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
- Certificate
- Student
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 10 total · 10 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.