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Event FTW83LA240

1983-05-16 WOODWARD, Oklahoma, United States Airport · WWR None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

AS THE A/S INCREASED DRNG TKOF ROLL THE ACFT STARTED TO SKID TO THE RT. THE STUDENT PLT STATED THAT WITH FULL L AILERON AND NO RT RUDDER THE ACFT CONTINUED TO SKID TO THE RT. HE THEN ATMPTD TO APPLY L RUDDER AND ABORT THE TKOF BY REDUCING PWR. THE ACFT VEERED SHARPLY TO THE L INTO THE VASI INSTALLATION LOCATED OFF THE L SIDE OF RWY 17. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1983_FTW83LA240.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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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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