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Event SEA84FA164

1984-07-06 GORST, Washington, United States Airport · PWT Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

ACCORDING TO WITNESSES THE ACFT DEPARTED RWY 19 & INITIATED A CLIMBING LEFT TURN. THE ACFT WAS THEN OBSERVED TO INCREASE ANGLE OF BANK TO THE LEFT AND CLIMB RATE. AT ABOUT 50 TO 75 FT, THE ACFT ENTERED A STEEP UNCONTROLLED DESCENT & COLLIDE WITH THE GROUND. AN EXAM OF THE WRECKAGE REVEALED THAT 5 OF 8 SPARK PLUGS WERE WORN & THE STALL WARNING LIGHT/HORN FUSE WAS MISSING. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1984_SEA84FA164.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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