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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC90LA069

1990-05-12 GOOSE BAY, Alaska, United States Airport · Z40 None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

LOSS OF CONTROL BY THE STUDENT PILOT BY PREMATURELY ATTEMPTING TO MANEUVER THE AIRPLANE.

Factual narrative

THE STUDENT PILOT WAS PERFORMING HIS FIRST SUPERVISED SOLO AND HAD ACCOMPLISHED 6 TOUCH AND GO LANDINGS. ON THE LAST LANDING ROLL THE AIRPLANE BEGAN TO VEER TO THE RIGHT. THE STUDENT PILOT APPLIED FULL POWER TO ATTEMPT A GO AROUND AND HE STARTED A LEFT TURN. THE LEFT WING TIP STRUCK THE RUNWAY'S SURFACE AND THE AIRPLANE NOSED INTO THE RUNWAY. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1990_ANC90LA069.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 (loss of control). 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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