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Event MIA85LA055

1984-12-09 FORT MYERS, Florida, United States Airport · FMY None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE PLT WAS PRACTICING TOUCH AND GO LANDINGS. ON THE ACCIDENT LANDING THE ACFT DRIFTED TO THE RT OF THE RWY AND TOUCHED DOWN WITH A SIDE ANGLE. THE PLT SAID THE ACFT BALLOONED AND HE APPLIED POWER TO GO AROUND BUT THOUGHT HE DID NOT HAVE THE PROPER CONTROL SO HE PULLED OFF THE POWER TO LAND. AS THE ACFT CONTACTED THE GROUND THE NOSE WHEEL COLLAPSED AND THE RT MAIN GEAR BROKE OFF. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1984_MIA85LA055.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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