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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA75AM057

1975-02-16 DESTIN, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

CESSNA 210 · N93047

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

DESTIN-FT WALTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

130° / 8 kt

Temp

64° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000210-60240

Total time

405 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

75

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RASHED 1/4MI FM DEPARTURE ARPT,FLT PHASE UNKNOWN.

Investigator remarks

BLOOD ALCOHOL LVL 47MG%,GASTRIC CONTENT 271MG%.C

Cause factors

  • 64/A/40 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/65 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Joint cause
  • 88/J/67 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Joint cause
  • 88/J/62 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE Joint cause
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0592. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0592.txt. Modern CAROL record 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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