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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event BFO85IA036

1985-04-16 WASHINGTON, District of Columbia, United States Airport · DCA None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N400DL

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 400A

Engine

P&W CANADA JT15D 5 SER

Seats / Engines

10 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20000417

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4ACF7

Registrant of record

N400DL LEASING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

WHILE ON FINAL FOR RUNWAY 36 AT WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT, WASHINGTON, D.C., THE PILOT WAS GIVEN A CHANGE OF LNDG RWYS BECAUSE OF TRAFFIC ON RWY 36. DRNG THE ENSUING REALIGNMENT THE CPT TOOK THE CTLS AND LNDG THE ACFT, SCRAPING THE RIGHT WING ON THE RUNWAY. EXAMINATION OF THE FDR INDICATED THE ACFT TOUCHED DOWN 10 KNOTS BELOW STALL SPEED. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1985_BFO85IA036.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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