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Event FTW83LA242

1983-05-18 COVINGTON, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N10069

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MAULE MX-7-180A

Year of manufacture

1996

Engine

LYCOMING 0-360-A1D (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19960206

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00800

Registrant of record

SILVESTRI LEONARDO

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

AT ABOUT 400 FT AGL AFTER TAKEOFF THE ENG QUIT. THE ACFT COLLIDED WITH THE GROUND AVOIDING POWER LINES. THE PLT ATTRIBUTED THE ENG FAILURE TO WATER IN FUEL. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1983_FTW83LA242.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. 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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