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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI72FEE43

1971-11-07 ELGIN, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7171L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

EPIC AIRCRAFT LLC E1000

Year of manufacture

2025

TCDS

A00059SE · EPIC AIRCRAFT LLC

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A-67A (1200 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20251120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A99894

Registrant of record

AX LEASING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7171L Cessna 310H 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 310H · N7171L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

ELGIN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000310H0041

Total time

2,812 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

500

Age

34

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3936. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3936.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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