- Date
- September 21, 1991, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Groveland, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N93KGCentrair 101A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910921046269A
- Case key
- 32930
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's poor in flight decision planning, and inadvertent stall mush while on approach to land. Contributing to the accident was his lack of total experience.
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 glider plt realized that he was unable to return to the intended landing strip and executed a close in apch to a field with telephone wires located on the apch end. While turning final, he felt the glider stall. He initiated a recovery but the glider impacted the ground hard in a wings level, slight nose low attitude. The glider slid into a fence and came to rest.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N93KG
- Reported as
- Centrair 101A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 101A0096
- Airframe hours
- 725
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Seminole Flying & Soaring, Inc
- Registered owner
- Seminole Flying & Soaring, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 9, 1991 · 43 hours before
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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 135 total · 47 in this make and model · 102 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.