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Event DEN91LA124

1991-09-02 LORDSBURG, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N61248

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING A75N1(PT17)

Year of manufacture

1946 · 45 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR W670 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640130

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7F931

Registrant of record

FISHER RUSSELL D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER WITH ADVERSE WIND (DOWNDRAFT).

Factual narrative

ACCORDING TO THE PILOT, DURING HIS TAKEOFF CLIMB, HE ENCOUNTERED A DOWNDRAFT AND WAS UNABLE TO PREVENT HIS AIRSPEED FROM DROPPING DANGEROUSLY LOW AS HE TRIED TO MAINTAIN FLIGHT. HE SAID HE WAS FORCED TO MAKE A FORCED LANDING BEFORE THE AIRCRAFT STALLED. THE AIRCRAFT STRUCK THE GROUND IN A RELATIVELY FLAT ATTITUDE AND THEN STRUCK SOME RISING TERRAIN. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1991_DEN91LA124.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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