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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76FLD39

1976-01-13 SARASOTA, Florida, United States Fatal 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6SU

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

S G AVIATION STORM 500

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20030714

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7C430

Registrant of record

MEYER JONATHAN D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

DEHAVILLAND DHC-2 · N63315

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Y

Airport

CEDAR LAKE

Kind of flying

DC

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

230° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000602

Total time

6,490 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

9,015

Age

43

Investigator remarks

WING HIT BUSHES.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint factor
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 0994. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0994.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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