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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI72FEE72

1972-04-18 NAPERVILLE, Illinois, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N55MS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

STICK AND RUDDER LLC CCX-2300

Year of manufacture

2023

Engine

LYCOMING IO-390-D3B6 (210 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20230721

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6FE36

Registrant of record

N55MS LLC

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

CASSUTT 11M · N55MS

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

NAPERVILLE AERO

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

030° / 4 kt

Temp

34° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000MS1

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

345

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ITIAL FLT IN ACFT.

Investigator remarks

PLT OVER CONTROLLED ON FIRST TURN IN PATTERN. IN

Cause factors

  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/31 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT 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 0399. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0399.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.