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Event SEA86LA099

1986-04-10 SPOKANE, Washington, United States Airport · SFF Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N318M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

WIZA JOSEPH D CELEBRITY

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19970115

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3659C

Registrant of record

DUNN RONALD G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

WHILE ON A FIVE-MILE FINAL, A TOTAL LOSS OF POWER OCCURRED. A LOOSE RIGHT MAGNETO CONTACTING THE FLYWHEEL MAGNET AND SHORTING THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM WAS FOUND. IN AN ATTEMPT TO MISS A RIVER IN THE APPROACH PATH TO THE RUNWAY, THE PILOT ATTEMPTED A 180 DEGREE TURN WHICH RESULTED IN AN APPROACH STALL. THIS AIRCRAFT HAS NO STALL WARNING AND GUSTY WINDS WERE PRESENT. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1986_SEA86LA099.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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