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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI82DA339

1982-09-05 LITCHFIELD, Illinois, United States Airport · 3LF Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N41EB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DIAMOND AIRCRAFT DA 40

Year of manufacture

2004

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20041125

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4D22D

Registrant of record

COAKES RANDALL S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE PILOT HAD RECEIVED 20 MINUTES OF INSTRUCTION IN THIS AIRCRAFT PRIOR TO HIS SOLO FLIGHT. THE PILOT MADE 8-10 PASSES AT THE RUNWAY PRIOR TO HIS LANDING ATTEMPT. ON APPROACH THE AIRCRAFT STALLED AND IMPACTED THE RUNWAY CAUSING THE MAIN GEAR TO COLLAPSE. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1982_CHI82DA339.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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