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Event ATL85LA074

1984-12-31 BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, United States Airport · BHM Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N201FR

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AIRBUS A320-214

Year of manufacture

2008

TCDS

A28NM · AIRBUS SAS

Engine

CFM INTL CFM56-5B4

Seats / Engines

182 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20080208

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A19647

Registrant of record

UMB BANK NA TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE PILOT REPORTED AFTER TAKEOFF FROM RWY 23 AT 400 FT AGL A HORN SOUNDED. A STUDENT PLT PASSENGER STATED THE MARKER BEACON, AND STALL WARNING HORN CAME ON. THE PLT HOWEVER COULD NOT IDENTIFY THE HORN. THE PLT LOWERED THE NOSE OF THE ACFT, BEGAN A DESCENT AND TURNED ONTO A LEFT DOWNWIND. PWR INDICATIONS AT THIS TIME WERE 2300 RPM WITH 23' MP. PLT STATED THAT THE ENG THEN QUIT BUT WHEN THE THROTTLE WAS PUMPED A PWR SURGE WAS EXPERIENCED. THE ACFT WAS FLOWN THROUGH FINAL APCH FOR RWY 23 AND CRASHED OFF THE DEPARTURE END OF RWY 36. NO FUEL CONTAMINATION WAS FOUND DURING THE INVESTIGATION AND THE ENG OPERATED AT MAX RPM ON A TEST STAND AFTER THE ACCIDENT. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1984_ATL85LA074.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, fuel contamination). 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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