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Event CHI82DA114

1982-04-05 DETROIT, Michigan, United States Airport · DTW Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE PILOT ELECTED TO LAND AT AN ALTERNATE AIRPORT WHEN HE ENCOUNTERED POOR VISIBILITY AND ICING CONDITIONS. WHILE RECEIVING VECTORS TO DETROIT METRO THE PILOT REPORTED HE WAS LOW ON FUEL AND NEEDED TO LAND. DURING THE APPROACH THE ENGINE QUIT. THE AIRCRAFT WAS LANDED IN A FIELD APPROXIMATELY ONE MILE SHORT OF THE RUNWAY AND COLLIDED WITH TREES. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1982_CHI82DA114.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (icing). 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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