- Date
- March 25, 1990, 13:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Brookhaven, NY
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2055TSchweizer S2-33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900325007859A
- Case key
- 36623
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Probable cause
Cause of the accident was a hard landing after the pilot stalled the glider while turning onto final approach.
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
According to the FAA the airplane turned final with good speed. The pilot slowed the airplane down and it appeared to stall about 25 feet off the ground. The airplane then hit the ground hard.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2055T
- Reported as
- Schweizer S2-33A
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 495
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Long Island Soaring Assoc.
- Airport
- 1N1 · Brookhaven
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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N2055T · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.