NTSB CAROL · Event
Event IAD78DLJ12
Registry · N7VC
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
COX VERNON L COX HAWK
Year of manufacture
1995
Engine
LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)
Seats / Engines
1 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19950206
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A951BA
Registrant of record
NORTH CAROLINA AVIATION MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME
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
PITTS S1 · N7VC
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
BROKEN
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000000001
Total time
90 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
3,599
Age
48
Investigator remarks
LNDD ON ROAD9
Cause factors
- 64/A/35 A PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/J/29 J PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING 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 0841.
Source file
NTSB_1978_3_0841.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- arXiv 2020 · arXiv preprint
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- NASA NTRS 2019 · Technical Memorandum (TM)
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- arXiv 2015 · arXiv preprint
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- Semantic Scholar 2015 · Article
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