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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76DLA09

1975-09-13 PENSACOLA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N99F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FOWLER ROBERT R SWEARINGEN SX300

Year of manufacture

1990

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19910214

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADD0C7

Registrant of record

RAINBOW SPORTS INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N99F ERCO 415-C None

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

ERCO 415-C · N99F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

COASTAL

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

340° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000844

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

2,000

Age

47

Investigator remarks

PWR OFF APCH WITH HI SINK RATE.

Cause factors

66/C/25 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3571. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3571.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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