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Event FTW87LA224

1987-09-25 ADDISON, Texas, United States Airport · ADS Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N63156

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NANCHANG CJ-6A

Year of manufacture

1965 · 22 years old at event

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20231221

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A84499

Registrant of record

MCCORMICK TIMOTHY J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE AIRCRAFT BECAME TOO SLOW WHILE ON FINAL APPROACH, STARTED MUSHING, AND DRIFTED LEFT. FULL ENGINE POWER WAS APPLIED ACCOMPANIED BY NOSE UP ELEVATOR TRIM. THE AIRCRAFT BOUNCED THEN CLIMBED ABOUT 30 FEET WHILE ATTAINING A STEEP NOSE UP ATTITUDE AND STALLED. AS THE AIRCRAFT DESCENDED, ITS NOSE AND LEFT WING TIP CONTACTED THE SURFACE AND IT FLIPPED OVER ONTO ITS BACK. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1987_FTW87LA224.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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