NTSB CAROL · Event
Event BFO86LA010
Aircraft involved
Factual narrative
AFTER LANDING AT THE BAY BRIDGE AIRPORT, THE CFI GOT OUT OF THE AIRCRAFT AND TOLD THE STUDENT-PILOT TO TAKE IT AROUND THE PATTERN. THE AIRCRAFT WAS TAXIED TO RUNWAY 28 AND WHILE WAITING FOR OTHER TRAFFIC TO DEPART THE CFI CALLED OVER UNICOM THAT THE LANDING DIRECTION HAD SWITCHED. THE STUDENT-PILOT THEN TAXIED TO THE OTHER END OF THE RUNWAY AND WAS THE FIRST AIRCRAFT TO DEPART IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. THE AIRCRAFT REMAINED IN THE PATTERN AND WHILE ON SHORT FINAL WAS OBSERVED DRIFTING TO THE LEFT. THE CFI STATED THAT THERE WAS ABOUT A 10 KNOT CROSSWIND AND THAT THE APPROACH LOOKED GOOD UP UNTIL THE LAST FEW FEET ABOVE THE RUNWAY WHEN A GUST OF WIND APPEARED TO BLOW THE AIRCRAFT OFF TO THE LEFT. HE ADDED THAT THE AIRCRAFT PITCHED UP AND BANKED TO THE LEFT BEFORE NOSING DOWN INTO TREES NORTH OF THE RUNWAY. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12
Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file
NTSB_1985_BFO86LA010.txt.
Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb.
Full investigation docket on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
Beyond the agency record
Search this event elsewhere.
Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.
Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.
Official agency record + docket.
Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.
Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).
Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.
Gold-standard aviation incident blog.
Aviation industry news search.
GA pilot forum — informed but rumor-prone.
GA pilot subreddit search.
Tail-number page — flight history (free tier limited).
AOPA Air Safety Institute search.
Mainstream press coverage. Recent events only.
Privacy-preserving news search.
External links open in a new tab. We don't ingest their content; we deep-link search queries.
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.
- NASA NTRS 2021 · Poster
Sleep, Sleepiness, and Performance Across Three In-Flight Bunk Rest Opportunities
Introduction: Airline pilots are required to take a rest break in a bunk during long-haul flights in an effort to reduce sleepiness during critical phases of flight.
- Semantic Scholar 2020 · Article (Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Routine opioid outcome monitoring in community pharmacy: Outcomes from an open-label single-arm implementation-effectiveness pilot study.
BACKGROUND In response to rising harms with prescription opioids, recent attention has focused on how to better utilise community pharmacists to monitor outcomes with opioid medicines.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2011 · Journal article (JAAER)
System Safety Study: Pedagogical Aviation Action Research
Action Research (AR) is a scientific methodology whereby researchers participate in a research setting for data collection and problem resolution.
Browse the full corpus — academia portal ↗