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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78DA112

1978-08-09 MT GROGHAN, South Carolina, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2WH

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SF50

Year of manufacture

2019

Engine

WILLIAMS FJ33-5A

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20180419

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A18F4D

Registrant of record

DOUBLE DRAGON 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

SCHEMP NIMBUS · N2WH

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000061

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

850

Age

52

Cause factors

  • 64/A/27 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/17 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,ALTITUDE OR CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 2903. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2903.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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