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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA71AS025

1970-08-07 MISSING AIRCRAFT, UN, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11SM

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22T

Year of manufacture

2023

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-550-K (315 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20231129

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02B76

Registrant of record

MUSSER SCOTT S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N11SM 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 · N11SM

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Z

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-7669

Total time

2,020 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

900

Age

56

Investigator remarks

DATE,ACFT DMG AND INJURY INDEX PRESUMED.

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 2438. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2438.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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