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Event FTW83FA276

1983-06-13 LAGRANGE, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

WITNESSES IN SIX SEPARATE LOCATIONS AROUND THE TOWN REPORTED THE ACFT PERFORMING LOW ALTITUDE AEROBATIC MANEUVERS & BUZZING RECREATIONAL AREAS PRIOR TO THE ACCIDENT. THE ACFT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY OBSERVED DOING 'ROLLER-COASTER' OR FIGURE-8 MANEUVERS, STALL & SPIN INTO A BARN. THE PLT'S BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL WAS 0.156%. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1983_FTW83FA276.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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