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Event MIA89IA012

1988-10-17 ST. THOMAS Airport · STT None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N706AA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 421C

Year of manufacture

1981 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR GTSIO-520 SER (435 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20010824

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A96AD9

Registrant of record

ARCHER AUTOMOTIVE INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE RT WING WAS DRAGGED WHILE LDG IN A CROSSWIND ON RWY 10. THE CREW STATED THE APRCH WAS NORMAL & THE TOUCHDOWN WAS SMOOTH ON THE RT GEAR WITH 3 DEGREES TO 5 DEGREES OF RT BANK. THE CAPT STATED THAT IMMED AFTER TOUCHDOWN, THE LT WING CAME UP SUDDENLY AND HE RAPIDLY CORRECTED WITH AILERON. HE STATED THE REMAINDER OF THE ROLLOUT WAS NORMAL & THE CREW WAS UNAWARE THAT THE RT WING HAD CONTACTED THE RWY UNTIL LATER. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1988_MIA89IA012.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. 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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