- Date
- July 23, 1989, 16:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Eighty Four, PA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N91867Schweizer 1-23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 29, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890723025189A
- Case key
- 36445
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Probable cause
Poor handling of the glider durig landing. The pilot over corrected and caused the nose to strike the runway surface. Directional control was lost, resulting in a groundloop.
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
Pilot made a poor landing pattern with excessive airspeed. On touchdown the pilot said that he over-controlled the glider allowing the nose to strike the runway surface and at this time he lost directional control as the glider bounced and groundlooped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N91867
- Reported as
- Schweizer 1-23
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 1-23
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bruno Cerceo
- Registered owner
- 1-23 Association
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 22D · Eighty-Four, PA
- Airport
- 22D · Bandel, runway 18, 2,095 × 98 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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 165 total · 2 in this make and model · 90 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- 84 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.