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Event LAX83LA358

1983-07-24 JACUMBA, California, United States Airport · L78 None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N53619

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LAISTER-KAUFFMAN LK-10A

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19860821

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6C954

Registrant of record

FRONIUS DOUGLAS L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE ACFT STRUCK A BUSH DURING A LANDING SHORT OF THE RWY. THE INSTRUCTOR IN THE REAR SEAT NOTED THAT THE AIRSPEED INDICATOR AT THAT POSITION DID NOT REGISTER BELOW 60 MPH BY DESIGN. THE INSTRUCTOR HAD NO RECENT EXPERIENCE IN THIS MAKEOF ACFT AND HAD NO FEELING FOR AIRSPEED IN IT. HE SAW THE ACFT WAS LOW AND SLOW AND REACHED TO CLOSE THE DIVE BRAKES AS THE ACFT STARTED TO SETTLE. THE ACFT IMPACTED A BUSH WITH THE LEFT WING AND GROUNDLOOPED COMING TO REST SHORT OF RWY 25.THE INSTRUCTOR OBSERVED THAT THERE WERE WIND SHEAR CONDITIONS AT THE TIME AND GUSTS TO 20 KTS. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1983_LAX83LA358.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 (wind shear). 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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