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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI83LA071

1983-01-02 PLATO CENTER, Illinois, United States Airport · LL53 Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4292V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170

Year of manufacture

1948 · 35 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570308

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A51FC0

Registrant of record

POWERS JAMES E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE WIND AT THE NEAREST FACILITY WAS REPORTED TO BE FROM 350 DEGREES AT 12 KTS. THE PILOT REPORTED THE WIND SOCK AT THE AIRPORT WAS SHOWING WIND FROM 310-320 DEGREES AT 10 KTS OR LESS AND GUSTING. HE MADE TWO GO-AROUNDS BECAUSE OF GUSTY WINDS AND DIFFICULTY IN MAINTAINING RUNWAY ALIGNMENT. 3 PT LANDING WAS MADE AND THE ACFT ROLLED 100 FEET AFTER TOUCHDOWN AT 50 MPH. THEN A STRONG GUST FROM THE RIGHT SIDE HIT AND THE PILOT STATED HE USED FULL RT AILERON DOWN WITH LEFT RUDDER. ACFT COULD NOT BE KEPT ON RUNWAY USING THIS TECHNIQUE AND USING BRAKES. THE ACFT LEFT THE RUNWAY AT 35-40 MPH AND ROLLED 40 FEET TO A SMALL DECLINE AND NOSED OVER. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1983_CHI83LA071.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 (go-around). 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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