# NTSB MIA86LA070: Let L-13, N26TS, Brooksville, FL, February 2, 1986

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report
- Date: February 2, 1986, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place: Brooksville, FL
- Location: 28.3759° N, 82.4560° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs from NTSB’s distance and direction from PILOT COUNTRY (X05), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=28.3759&lon=-82.4560&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Enroute](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/400) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Completed
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 31573
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=MIA86LA070
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/31573/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA86LA070

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Miscellaneous/other, cruise - normal
  - weather condition - unfavorable wind (cause)
  - in-flight planning/decision - poor, pilot in command (cause)
  - wind information - disregarded, pilot in command (cause)
  - distance - excessive, pilot in command (cause)
- Forced landing, approach - vfr pattern - downwind
- In flight collision with terrain/water, landing - flare/touchdown

## Analysis

THE PILOT STATED THAT HE ENCOUNTERED SINKING AIR & WAS UNABLE TO MAKE THE ARPT. HE ALSO STATED THAT HE WAS OPERATING EAST OF THE ARPT & THAT A SEABREEZE WIND FROM THE WEST EXISTED AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT. THE EFFECTIVE GLIDE RATIO OF A GLIDER IS REDUCED WHEN FLYING INTO A HEADWIND.

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N26TS](https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N26TS-2012-12-13), registration cancelled 2012-12-13, S/N 174533, built 1970 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: LET L-13
- Registry model: [Let BLANIK L-13](https://openairdocs.org/model/let-blanik-l-13) (registry code 1360306) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [NONE](https://openairdocs.org/engine/none) (registry code 00000, none) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Glider
- Serial number: 174533
- Airframe hours: 600
- Engines: NONE NONE unknown
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Instructional, Part 91
- Operator: Tampa Bay Soaring
- Registered owner: Roberto P. Garcia
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Last inspection: Annual, November 3, 1985, 25 hours before
- Departed: X05, BROOKSVILLE, FL
- Airport: X05, Pilot Country

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 51; private; airplane ratings: single-engine land; medical: class 3, valid medical--w/ waivers/lim; seat: front; flight hours: 190 total, 9 in this make and model, 117 as pilot in command, 32 in the last 90 days, 11 in the last 30 days, 3 in the last 24 hours

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: 250° at 6 knots
- Visibility: 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 77 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter: 30.00 inHg
- Observed at: TPA, 20 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 (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 19860202002189A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19860202002189A), Feb 2, 1986: Let L13BLANIK, Brooksville, FL, Substantial damage. Misjudged gliding distance into a headwind. Could not make airport. Landed on swamp a quarter mile east of airport.

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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