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Event CHI82DA318

1982-08-21 PLAINFIELD TWP, Illinois, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

AIRCRAFT CAME DOWN VERTICALLY ROLLING. JUST BEFORE GROUND CONTACT OR AT ABOUT 200 FEET ROLLING SLOWED AND AIRCRAFT CONTINUED DESCENT TO TERRAIN CONTACT. NO MALFUNCTION NOTED. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1982_CHI82DA318.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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