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Event ANC85FA012

1984-10-26 KENAI, Alaska, United States Airport · ENA None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE ACFT BOUNCED TWICE AT A POINT ABOUT 1000-1500 FT DOWN THE RWY AND THEN STARTED TO GROUND LOOP ACCORDING TO A WITNESS. DURING THE GROUND LOOP THE ACFT PITCHED UP AND CLIMBED STEEPLY TO ABOUT 40 FT AGL AND STALLED. THE RIGHT WING DROPPED AND THE ACFT STARTED TO SPIN BEFORE HITTING THE GROUND VERTICALLY. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1984_ANC85FA012.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (stall). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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