- Date
- May 28, 1990, 15:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Wallkill, NY
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N126DBSchweizer 1-26E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900528017489A
- Case key
- 36649
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Probable cause
The pilot's failue to maintain flying speed which resulted in a stall. A factor was the pilot's diversion of attention.
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
A student pilot flying a glider was observed to enter a spin while turning base leg for landing. Recovery was not accomplished prior to impacting the ground. When interviewed after the accident the pilot said 'I had too many things on my mind...'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N126DB
- Reported as
- Schweizer 1-26E
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 516
- Airframe hours
- 677
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- C. Dianne Black
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 24, 1989 · 16 hours before
- Departed
- 06N · Middletown, NY
- Airport
- 06N · Randall, runway 26, 2,800 × 30 ft, asphalt
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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 30 total · 1 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 5 knots, gusting 8
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.