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Event LAX87LA210

1987-04-20 HAWTHORNE, California, United States Airport · HHR None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

DURING A SOLO INSTRUCTIONAL FLIGHT, THE STUDENT PILOT WAS PRACTICING TOUCH AND GO LANDINGS. HE NOTICED AS THE FLIGHT PROGRESSED, THAT THERE WAS SOME GUSTING CONDITIONS ALOFT AND THAT THE WIND DIRECTION WAS VARYING. ON THE LAST LANDING THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN HARD, BECAME AIRBORNE, THEN TOUCHED DOWN A SECOND TIME. THE PILOT WAS ABLE TO TAXI THE AIRCRAFT TO THE PARKING RAMP. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1987_LAX87LA210.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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