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Event LAX82DA166

1982-04-28 MODESTO, California, United States Airport · MOD None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1105C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 177B

Year of manufacture

1977 · 5 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770924

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02F3D

Registrant of record

LANDON JEFF

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE PILOT WAS PRACTICING TOUCH AND GO LANDINGS WITH A RIGHT QUARTERING HEADWIND THAT WAS GUSTING TO 20 KTS. ON THE SECOND LANDING, THE AIRCRAFT BALLOONED AND BEGAN TO PORPOISE. ON THE THIRD TOUCHDOWN, THE AIRCRAFT STOPPED PORPOISING, BUT THE TIP OF ONE PROPELLER BLADE STRUCK THE RUNWAY. THE FIREWALL AND ADJACENT STRUCTURE WERE DAMAGED. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1982_LAX82DA166.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 (icing). 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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