- Date
- May 26, 1986, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Pensacola, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N11TRLet L-13
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860526044519A
- Case key
- 31640
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pvt glider plt with a total of 47 hours of flt time departed his local field with one passenger. At about 2000 ft AGL he disengaged the aero tow and proceeded to glide for about one hour. The plt stated that when he started back to his local airport and was established on final approach he encountered down drafts and could not stretch the glide to the rwy. He selected a soybean field and started a precautionary landing. He struck a tree on final apch and the acft cartwheeled to the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N11TR
- Reported as
- Let L-13
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 174708
- Airframe hours
- 2,522
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Coastal Soaring Associates
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 26, 1985 · 84 hours before
- Airport
- 83J · Coastal Airport, runway 18, 2,550 × 280 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
- Age
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 47 total · 26 in this make and model · 35 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PNS, 16 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.