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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL88LA151

1988-04-22 CHESTER, South Carolina, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3LB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE GVI (G650ER)

TCDS

T00015AT · GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE CORP

Engine

ROLLS-ROYC BR 700 SERIES

Seats / Engines

22 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20150110

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31B9C

Registrant of record

NORMANDYS TRIUMPH LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE GLIDER PILOT FAILED TO MAINTAIN SUFFICIENT ALTITUDE WHILE ON FINAL APPROACH FOR LANDING AND STRUCK TREES. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1988_ATL88LA151.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. 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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