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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76AN126

1976-09-08 BLOCK ISLAND, Rhode Island, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N272D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22

Year of manufacture

2021

TCDS

A00009CH · CIRRUS DESIGN CORP

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550-N (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20210929

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2AE35

Registrant of record

DELTA DELTA AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N272D Beech S35 Fatal

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

BEECH S35 · N272D

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

D

Airport

BLOCK ISLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D7463

Total time

728 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,175

Age

69

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WHEN ACFT MOVED,FELL OFF,STRUCK HEAD ON RAMP.

Investigator remarks

PARKING BRAKE INEFFECTIVE.PAX ON R WING OF ACFT

Cause factors

68/A/K4 A
PERSONNEL PASSENGER Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/20 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/J/D1 J
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (OWNER PERSONNEL) Joint cause
70/J/CJ J
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) 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 2499. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2499.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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