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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76FLA35

1976-02-29 DESTIN, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N76ST

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150M

Year of manufacture

1975 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-200A (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20250714

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA40D1

Registrant of record

STEFENELLI AVIATION N-TR INC TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N76ST Cessna 421 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

CESSNA 421 · N76ST

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Business

Airport

DESTIN-FT WALTON

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000421B0935

Total time

340 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

13,297

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AXI ACROSS SANDY AREA TO GET TO THE RWY.

Investigator remarks

DUE OTR ACFT HOLDING ON TAXIWAY,PLT ELECTED TO T

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BR J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT SHOULDERS Joint cause
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1246. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1246.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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