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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW83LA016

1982-10-16 HOUSTON, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3SW

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 525

Year of manufacture

2002

Engine

WILLIAMS FJ 44 SERIES

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20020912

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31C45

Registrant of record

AERO BURRO LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

AFTER TAKING OFF, THE PILOT FLEW BACK BY THE AIRPORT AND THEN BEGAN TO CLIMB AGAIN. WHILE CLIMBING THROUGH ABOUT 700 FT, THE ENGINE LOST POWER. THE PILOT WAS UNABLE TO REACH THE AIRPORT. DURING A LANDING, HE CLEARED OVER AN AREA WITH TREES BUT STRUCK A POWER LINE AND CRASHED. HE REPORTED THAT HE HAD JUST INSTALLED A PRIMER WITHOUT A LOCKING DEVICE. REPORTEDLY, THE PRIMER OPENED DURING FLIGHT AND FLOODED THE ENGINE. THIS WAS THE PILOT'S FIRST FLIGHT IN THIS AIRCRAFT. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1982_FTW83LA016.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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