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Event MIA84FA253

1984-09-15 CULEBRA, Puerto Rico Airport · CPX Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE PLT WAS ADVISED BY OTHER PLTS THAT A MISSED APPROACH WAS NOT POSSIBLE AT THIS ARPT ON RWY 31. ALL OTHER PLTS IN THE GROUP LANDED ON RWY 13. THE ACCIDENT PLT ELECTED 31 UNTIL HE WAS ON FINAL WITH A TAILWIND AND THEN STARTED A GO-AROUND. THE RISING TERRAIN TRAPPED THE ACFT WHICH STALLED INTO A HILLSIDE. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1984_MIA84FA253.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, go-around). 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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