# Airport occurrence

- Type: NTSB defining event
- NTSB code: 070
- CICTT category: Airport Occurrence
- Defining event in: 40 cases
- In the sequence of: 56 cases
- Fatal cases: 0
- All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/070/cases.md
- Cases with it anywhere in the sequence: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/070/sequence.md
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/070

## Cases per year (defining / in the sequence)

- 2008: 6 / 8
- 2009: 1 / 4
- 2010: 4 / 7
- 2011: 2 / 3
- 2012: 3 / 4
- 2014: 0 / 1
- 2015: 6 / 6
- 2016: 4 / 7
- 2017: 1 / 1
- 2019: 3 / 3
- 2020: 3 / 3
- 2022: 2 / 3
- 2023: 1 / 1
- 2024: 2 / 2
- 2025: 1 / 1
- 2026: 1 / 2

## Phase of flight

- Taxi: 9 cases
- Landing-landing roll: 7 cases
- Taxi-from runway: 7 cases
- Landing: 4 cases
- Taxi-into takeoff position: 4 cases
- Taxi-to runway: 4 cases
- Takeoff: 3 cases
- Takeoff-rejected takeoff: 2 cases
- Unknown: 1 cases
- Landing-flare/touchdown: 1 cases

## In the probable cause of these cases

- [Decision making/judgment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041520) (Personnel issues): 5 cases
- [Runway/land/takeoff/taxi surface, general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03023000) (Environmental issues): 4 cases
- [Tree(s)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03022020) (Environmental issues): 3 cases
- [Attention](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021510) (Personnel issues): 3 cases
- [Debris/dirt/foreign object](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03022055) (Environmental issues): 2 cases
- [Hidden/submerged object](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03022052) (Environmental issues): 2 cases
- [Issuing instructions](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063538) (Personnel issues): 2 cases
- [Identification/recognition](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041510) (Personnel issues): 2 cases
- [Lack of action](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041030) (Personnel issues): 2 cases
- [Monitoring environment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021545) (Personnel issues): 2 cases

## Aircraft models (registry)

- [Piper PA-28-161](https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-161): 2 cases
- [Eurocopter Deutschland EC 135 P2+](https://openairdocs.org/model/eurocopter-deutschland-ec-135-p2-plus): 2 cases
- [Cessna 172S](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172s): 2 cases
- [Cessna 172N](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172n): 2 cases
- [Weatherly 201B](https://openairdocs.org/model/weatherly-201b): 1 cases
- [Piper PA 46-350P](https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-46-350p): 1 cases
- [Piper PA-32R-300](https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-32r-300): 1 cases
- [Piper PA-28-140](https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-140): 1 cases
- [Piper PA-18-150](https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-18-150): 1 cases
- [Hawker Beechcraft B300](https://openairdocs.org/model/hawker-beechcraft-b300): 1 cases

## Newest cases

- [NTSB DCA26WA325](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA26WA325), Aug 20, 2026: Boeing 737 (TC-MGN), Chisinau, Moldova, occurrence
- [NTSB CEN26LA045](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN26LA045), Nov 12, 2025: Cessna TU206F (N37EW), Muscatine, IA, substantial damage, investigation ongoing
- [NTSB ERA24LA131](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA24LA131), Mar 4, 2024: Fairchild SA227-AT (N563TR), Smyrna, TN, substantial damage. Probable cause: The airplane encountered a sink hole while taxiing.
- [NTSB WPR24LA068](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR24LA068), Jan 8, 2024: Cessna 421C (N421TP), Carson City, NV, substantial damage. Probable cause: Airport personnel’s failure to properly prioritize their response actions, including updating the airport’s automated weather observation system recording in a timely manner to notify incoming pilots…
- [NTSB DCA23WA379](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA23WA379), Jul 6, 2023: Boeing 767 (PR-ABB), Manaus, Brazil, occurrence, minor damage
- [NTSB GAA23WA016](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA23WA016), Oct 15, 2022: Bell 206 (JA6113), Kitakyushu, Japan, incident, no damage
- [NTSB CEN22LA328](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN22LA328), Jul 20, 2022: Eurocopter Deutschland EC 135 (N228MT), Mount Vernon, IL, substantial damage. Probable cause: The inadequate securement of the cloth fire extinguisher cover, which resulted in it being blown off the fire extinguisher and ingested into the helicopter’s fenestron during the landing.
- [NTSB DCA21WA057](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA21WA057), Dec 3, 2020: Boeing 737-8EH (PR-GUD), Sao Paulo, Brazil, incident, no damage
- [NTSB CEN21LA022](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN21LA022), Oct 18, 2020: Cessna 182Q (N97875), Spearfish, SD, substantial damage. Probable cause: The snowplow driver’s failure to see the airplane which resulted in a collision with the airplane.
- [NTSB DCA21WA098](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA21WA098), Oct 4, 2020: Airbus A320-214 (N740AV), Bogata, Colombia, incident, substantial damage

NTSB has coded findings and defining events since 2008; earlier cases used its older occurrence and cause codes and aren't counted.

Findings: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings.md. Defining events: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events.md. Phases of flight: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases.md. Every investigation, filtered by finding, event, phase, state, year or model: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb.md (for example ?state=MI&fatal=1).

NTSB's definitions: Accident and incident, 49 CFR 830.2 (https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-VIII/part-830/subpart-A/section-830.2), CICTT occurrence categories (PDF) (https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Documents/datafiles/OccurrenceCategoryDefinitions.pdf), CICTT phases of flight (PDF) (https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Documents/datafiles/PhaseofFlightDefinitions.pdf), and NTSB coding manual, before 2008 (PDF) (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf). NTSB publishes no definitions for its findings, only their names.

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