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Event MIA83LA130

1983-04-25 MIAMI, Florida, United States Airport · TMB None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N81MA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GLOBE GC-1B

Year of manufacture

1946 · 37 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-360 (210 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560816

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB0817

Registrant of record

ROBERTS MAX E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE ACFT GROUNDLOOPED AND COLLAPSED THE LANDING GEAR AFTER THE RT BRAKE FAILED DURING TAXI FROM LANDING. THE PILOT SAID HE HAD INSTALLED NEW BRAKE PADS AND HAD SPENT TIME TAXIING TO WEAR THEM IN. AFTER COMPLETING ONE TAKEOFF AND LANDING THEACFT WAS BEING TAXIED TO THE RAMP WHEN THE RT BRAKE LOST PRESSURE. THE PILOT STATES THAT THE CAUSE OF THE BRAKE FAILURE WAS THE MASTER CYLINDER. THE LANDING GEAR SHOULD HAVE STOOD THE LOAD OF A GROUND LOOP. THE FAILURE WAS THE RESULT OF REPLACEMENT SIDE BRACES WHICH APPEAR TO BE HOME MADE. THE ORIGINAL BRACES WERE SOLID ONE PIECE CASTINGS. THE BRACES IN USE WERE TWO PIECES WELDED TOGETHER. THE BRACES FAILED AT THE WELDS. THE PILOT DOES NOT KNOW THE ORIGIN OF THE BRACES. THEY WERE ON THE ACFT WHEN HE BOUGHT IT. THE ACFT IS 1946 VINTAGE AND MANY PARTS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1983_MIA83LA130.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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