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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC88LA227

1988-08-21 ELMIRA, New York, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3613B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER SGS 1-26E

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800411

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A412C6

Registrant of record

K & L SOARING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE PLT REPORTED TO THE LOCAL POLICE THAT HE WAS HAVING TROUBLE GETTING LIFT AND WAS ATTEMPTING AN OFF AIRPORT LANDING WHEN THE ACFT STALLED AT LOW ALT AND CRASHED. THE PILOT DID NOT FILE AN ACCIDENT REPORT. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1988_NYC88LA227.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). 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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