Cessna 421B N1538T

9 October 1973 · Tallahassee, Florida, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 9 October 1973 at about 17:05 local time, a Cessna 421B registered N1538T, operated by Colonial Mobil, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Tallahassee, Florida, United States. 5 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 9 October 1973 at 17:05
Classification: Accident
Location: Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Nearest airport: Tallahassee Muni
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Cessna 421B
Registration: N1538T
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Colonial Mobil
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Corporate/Executive
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Jefferson, Ga → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-4128

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
5	0	0	0	5

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

POST ACDT INSP DID NOT REVEAL EVIDENCE OF MALFUNCTION.ACFT ENTRD SANDY AREA L OF RWY.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-4128, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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