- Date
- March 14, 1987, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Brooksville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N68PELet L-13
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870314005989A
- Case key
- 31874
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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.
Overrun
Planned approach - poorCause
Lack of total experience in type of aircraftCause
Proper touchdown point - not attainedCause
Aircraft handling - inadequateCause
In flight collision with object
Object - fence
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ground
Analysis
On final apch, with full flaps extended, the glider began to float down the rwy. The plt then retracted them, after which, it descended, collided with a fence, & came to rest in a field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68PE
- Reported as
- Let L-13
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 173160
- Airframe hours
- 2,000
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Tampa Bay Soaring Club
- Registered owner
- Peter W. Espenlaub
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 1987
N68PERegistration cancelled Feb 16, 2018 · Let BLANIK L-13Airframe modelLet BLANIK L-13Engine modelNONE
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
- 34
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 20 total · 10 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIE, 28 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.