Skip to content

Atlas / NTSB / CHI86LA015

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI86LA015

1985-10-24 CAHOKIA, Illinois, United States Airport · CPS None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE STUDENT PILOT WAS PRACTICING TOUCH AND GO LANDINGS IN PREPARATION FOR A SOLO CROSS COUNTRY. THE PILOT WAS COMPENSATING FOR A CROSSWIND WHEN HE LANDED THE AIRCRAFT ON ITS NOSE RESULTING IN SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1985_CHI86LA015.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 (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.

Browse the full corpus — academia portal ↗