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Event ATL87IA062

1987-01-19 CLEVELAND, Ohio, United States Airport · CLE None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N88FB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-235

Year of manufacture

1975 · 12 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19750616

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC1BFB

Registrant of record

GEARY TRAVIS S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

A PIECE OF ICE PENETRATED A PAX CABIN WINDOW IMMEDIATELY FORWARD OF THE RT ENGINE PROP ARC AND THE ICE STRIKE PLATE. THE ACFT MFR SUBSEQUENTLY ISSUED A SERVICE BULLETIN RECOMMENDING THE REPLACEMENT OF THE STANDARD WINDOWS INSTALLED FORWARD OF THE PROP ARC(S) WITH REINFORCED WINDOWS. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1987_ATL87IA062.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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