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Event MIA88FA191

1988-06-14 VERO BEACH, Florida, United States Airport · VRB Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE 25 YR OLD STUDENT PLT WAS PRACTICING TAKE-OFFS & LDGS ON RWY 11L IN PREPARATION FOR HIS PVT PLT FLT TEST. WHEN HE DEPARTED, ABOUT 1.9 HRS PRIOR TO THE ACCIDENT, THE WINDS WERE 090 DEGS AT 13 KNTS. AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT THE WINDS HAD INCREASED TO 18 KNTS WITH TURBULENCE. THE STUDENT PLT HAD REQUIRED EXTRA INSTRUCTION IN THE AREA OF X-WIND LDGS PREVIOUSLY. HE STATED HE WAS USING RUDDER ONLY TO CORRECT FOR DRIFT & DID NOT USE AILERON AS HE WAS AFRAID HE WOULD DRAG A WING. THE ACFT WAS OBSERVED FLYING AN ERRATIC FINAL, LOSING DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DURING TOUCHDOWN & DEPARTING THE RUNWAY. THE AIRCRAFT THEN FLIPPED OVER TO AN INVERTED POSITION. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1988_MIA88FA191.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (icing, turbulence). 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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