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Event NYC82DA073

1982-04-18 BUTLER, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT WAS FLYING WITH THE OWNER OF THE AIRCRAFT TO HELP HIM GET ACQUAINTED WITH HIS PLANE. WHILE ON FINAL APPROACH, THE OWNER LET THE AIRCRAFT GET LOW. HE CORRECTED BY ADDING POWER, BUT REPORTEDLY RAISED THE NOSE BEYOND THE STALL ANGLE. THE AIRCRAFT STALLED, AND DURING RECOVER, IT CONTACTED THE GROUND WITH ENOUGH FORCE TO DAMAGE THE PLANE. THE INSTRUCTOR REPORTED THE WIND WAS GUSTING TO 25 KNOTS. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1982_NYC82DA073.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 (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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