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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI75AC035

1974-10-24 CHICAGO, Illinois, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2HN

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FLYBOY AVIATION LLC LANCAIR IV-P

Year of manufacture

2020

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-550 SER (280 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20200828

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A18E0D

Registrant of record

FLYBOY AVIATION 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

CESSNA 337D · N2HN

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Airport

MEIGS

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

050° / 4 kt

Temp

52° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000337-0982

Total time

2,209 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,308

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TO WATER.

Investigator remarks

HIT WATER.BECAME AIRBORNE,UN CONT FLT,SETTLED IN

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/53 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause
  • 83/J/H J
    TERRAIN GLASSY WATER Joint cause
  • 88/J/88 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 3862. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3862.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.