NTSB investigations, PA
45 cases where the sequence of events included Hard landing.
Cases per year
| 2008 | 3 |
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| 2009 | 6 |
| 2011 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2013 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2 |
| 2015 | 3 |
| 2016 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2019 | 3 |
| 2021 | 4 |
| 2022 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2026 | 1 |
Where
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Query with SQL
duckdb -csv -c "SELECT c.\"ntsbNumber\", c.\"eventDate\", c.\"eventType\", c.\"eventCity\", c.\"eventStateOrRegion\", a.n_number, a.\"aircraftMake\", a.\"aircraftModel\", c.\"highestInjuryLevel\", c.\"totalFatal\", c.\"completionStatus\", c.report_url
FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_case_detail.parquet' c LEFT JOIN 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_aircrafts.parquet' a ON a.case_mkey = c.\"mKey\" AND a.position = 1
WHERE c.\"eventStateOrRegion\" = 'PA' AND c.\"eventCountry\" = 'USA'
AND c.\"mKey\" IN (SELECT s.case_mkey FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_events.parquet' s WHERE s.\"tier2Number\" = '092' AND s.case_mkey IN (SELECT case_mkey FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_events.parquet' WHERE \"isDefiningEvent\"))
ORDER BY c.\"eventDate\" DESC, c.\"ntsbNumber\" DESC"Prints the whole list as CSV. It reads the release’s Parquet files over HTTPS, so there’s nothing to download first. Install DuckDB to run it.
SELECT c."ntsbNumber", c."eventDate", c."eventType", c."eventCity", c."eventStateOrRegion", a.n_number, a."aircraftMake", a."aircraftModel", c."highestInjuryLevel", c."totalFatal", c."completionStatus", c.report_url FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_case_detail.parquet' c LEFT JOIN 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_aircrafts.parquet' a ON a.case_mkey = c."mKey" AND a.position = 1 WHERE c."eventStateOrRegion" = 'PA' AND c."eventCountry" = 'USA' AND c."mKey" IN (SELECT s.case_mkey FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_events.parquet' s WHERE s."tier2Number" = '092' AND s.case_mkey IN (SELECT case_mkey FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_events.parquet' WHERE "isDefiningEvent")) ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
Run it at the DuckDB prompt, or in any tool that reads Parquet over HTTPS. More ways to query the release are on Use the data.
NTSB ERA26LA353Accident · No injuriesClass 4 · LimitedInvestigation openRoberts GS-2 Sportsman · Kerrtown, PANTSB ERA25LA044Accident · No injuriesClass 3 · LimitedFinal reportSchweizer 269C-1 · Boalsburg, PAA loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined.NTSB ERA25LA030Accident · No injuriesClass 3 · LimitedFinal reportZenith Zodiac 601 HDS · Altoona, PAThe total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation as a result of a deteriorated gascolator gasket. Contributing was the failure of the mechanic to replace the gasket during the most recent condition inspection.NTSB ERA24LA389Accident · No injuriesClass 4 · LimitedFinal reportCessna 150 · Erie, PAThe student pilot’s improper landing flare and subsequent improper recovery from a bounced landing and the flight instructor’s inadequate remedial action.NTSB ERA24LA146Accident · No injuriesClass 4 · LimitedFinal reportBeech A23 24 · Somerset, PAThe student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control, and the flight instructor’s lack of remedial action during a landing attempt in a gusty wind, which resulted in a loss of directional control and runway excursion.NTSB ERA24LA132Accident · No injuriesClass 4 · LimitedFinal reportPiper PA-28RT-201 · Allentown, PAThe pilot’s failure to maintain a proper descent rate during the final approach, resulting in a hard landing and collision with a runway edge light.NTSB ERA23LA213Accident · No injuriesClass 4 · LimitedFinal reportTextron 172 · West Mifflin, PAThe student pilot’s improper landing flare, and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action, which resulted in a hard landing.NTSB ERA22LA195Accident · No injuriesClass 4 · LimitedFinal reportPiper PA-32 · Carlisle, PAThe pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in the airplane’s empennage impacting the runway surface during landing.NTSB ERA22LA118Accident · No injuriesClass 4 · LimitedFinal reportHiller UH-12E4 · Shrewsbury, PAThe pilot’s failure to maintain control during the descent which resulted in a hard landing.NTSB ERA22FA105Accident · Serious injuriesClass 3 · FieldFinal reportEurocopter Deutschland EC135 P2+ · Drexel Hill, PAAn inflight attitude upset for undetermined reasons that resulted in a rotor system overspeed, a reduction of power from both engines, and a subsequent hard landing.NTSB ERA22LA072Accident · No injuriesClass 4 · LimitedFinal reportAeronca O58B · Jonestown, PAThe pilot’s incorrect glide path and landing flare, which resulted in a collision with obstacles on final approach and a hard landing.NTSB ERA21LA351Accident · No injuriesClass 4 · LimitedFinal reportPiper PA-28-180 · Philadelphia, PAThe pilot’s exceedance of the wing’s critical angle of attack, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and loss of aircraft control.NTSB ERA21LA242Accident · No injuriesClass 4 · LimitedFinal reportLet L-23 Super Blanik · Pittsfield, PAThe student pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing and loss of directional control.NTSB ERA21LA268Accident · Minor injuriesClass 4 · LimitedFinal reportCessna T210 · Bloomsburg, PAThe pilot’s unstable approach and delayed go-around attempt, which resulted in a porpoised landing, a nose landing gear collapse, and runway excursion.NTSB GAA20CA089Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportCessna 172 · DuBois, PAThe pilot's improper fuel management, which resulted in fuel starvation and a total loss of engine power, and his subsequent improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard, bounced landing. Contributing to the accident were the pilot's improper preflight…NTSB GAA20CA079Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportPiper PA28 · Quakertown, PAThe student pilot's improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard, bounced landing, and his subsequent failure to maintain directional control, which resulted in a runway excursion and collision with a drainage culvert.NTSB GAA19CA514Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportHughes 269A · Shamokin, PAThe pilot's improper landing flare during an autorotation, which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing to the accident was a loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination revealed no evidence of any…NTSB GAA18CA231Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportCessna 162 · York, PAThe pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard, bounced landing and a nose landing gear collapse.NTSB ERA17LA285Accident · No injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportBell 47G · St Marys, PAThe student pilot's inadequate prefight planning and en route fuel management, which resulted in fuel exhaustion and a total loss of engine power.NTSB GAA17CA293Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportPiper PA 34 · Tunkhannock, PAThe pilot’s failure to maintain adequate airspeed and his exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack during landing in crosswind conditions, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.NTSB ERA17LA046Accident · No injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportRobinson Helicopter R22 · West Chester, PAThe flight instructor's decision to continue the practice autorotation in known gusting wind conditions, which resulted in a hard landing and roll over.NTSB ERA16LA224Accident · No injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportCessna 172P · Honesdale, PAThe pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed while departing in a heavily loaded airplane at high density altitude, which resulted in the airplane exceeding its critical angle of attack and experiencing an aerodynamic stall, landing hard, and overrunning…NTSB GAA16CA315Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportSeela Gerald L Glasair SH 2F · State College, PAThe pilot's hard landing in gusting wind conditions. Contributing to the accident were the pilot's unfamiliarity with the newly purchased airplane's throttle resulting in an unstable approach, and the pilot's ability to compensate for the wind.NTSB ERA16LA167Accident · No injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportBell 47D1 · Myerstown, PAA total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined because examination of the engine revealed no mechanical anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.NTSB ERA16CA060Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportEurocopter Deutschland EC 135 · Monongahela, PAThe inadequate securing of the wheeled fire extinguisher's cover which resulted in it being blown off of the fire extinguisher and ingested into the helicopter's fenestron during takeoff, resulting in a loss of directional control.NTSB GAA15CA119Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportCessna 172R · Beaver Falls, PAThe student pilot's failure to maintain airplane attitude control during the landing, resulting in a hard landing.NTSB GAA15CA099Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportCessna 172 - R · State College, PAThe student pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed during the approach to landing which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and a hard landing.NTSB ERA14LA290Accident · 1 fatalLimited investigationFinal reportCameron Balloons US Z-225 · Spring City, PAThe pilot's fall from the balloon’s basket during touchdown in a field for reasons that could not be determined based on the available evidence, which resulted in his fatal injury.NTSB ERA14CA273Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportCessna 172S · Harrisburg, PAThe pilot's failure to compensate for wind conditions during landing, which resulted in a hard landing.NTSB ERA14CA031Accident · Serious injuriesData collectionFinal reportSchweizer SGS 1 26E · Eighty Four, PAThe pilot's failure to maintain proper airspeed and glide path, which resulted in an overshoot, a hard landing, and a subsequent collision with terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's lack of total experience in make and model.NTSB ERA13CA357Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportPiper PA-34-200T · West Mifflin, PAThe pilot's improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing.NTSB ERA13LA288Accident · Serious injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportHagerty RV-7A · Altoona, PAThe pilot's improper recovery from an encounter with a wind gust during landing, which resulted in a hard landing on, and displacement of, the nose landing gear and a subsequent runway excursion and noseover.NTSB ERA13LA212Accident · Serious injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportCameron Balloons US Z-225 · Chester Springs, PAThe pilot's failure to extinguish the burner pilot lights prior to a hard landing in windy conditions.NTSB ERA12CA443Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportEvektor-Aerotechnik Sportstar Plus · Lancaster, PAThe pilot's attempt to secure an open canopy during takeoff, which resulted in a loss of control and subsequent hard landing.NTSB ERA11CA366Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportChampion 7FC · Wellsville, PAThe pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed on final approach which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.NTSB ERA11CA227Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportCessna 150A · Factoryville, PAThe pilot's inadequate flare during the gusty crosswind landing, which resulted in a hard landing.NTSB ERA10CA075Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportSchweizer 269C-1 · Lebanon, PAThe pilot’s failure to arrest the helicopter descent during the simulated engine out maneuver resulting in a hard landing.NTSB ERA09FA414Accident · 1 fatalField investigationFinal reportHughes 369 · Franklin, PAA loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion as a result of the pilot's fuel mismanagement.NTSB ERA09LA410Accident · No injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportRobinson R44 · Silver Spring, PAThe student pilot's inability to fully control the helicopter, during cruise and the resultant off-field hard landing.NTSB ERA09CA341Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportDiamond Aircraft Ind DA 40 · West Chester, PAThe student pilot’s improper recovery from a bounced landing. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor’s inadequate remedial action.NTSB ERA09CA287Accident · Serious injuriesData collectionFinal reportPiper PA-28-140 · Danville, PAThe student pilot's failure to maintain control during a landing.NTSB ERA09CA404Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportCessna 172 · York, PAThe student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing.NTSB MIA08CA192Accident · No injuriesData collectionFinal reportBeech G-36 · Erie, PAThe pilot's improper landing flare resulting in a hard landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's improper preflight inspection of the fuel caps and his improper inflight fuel management, which led to a loss of engine power.NTSB NYC08FA307Accident · 1 fatalField investigationFinal reportLindstrand Balloons 150A · Phoenixville, PAThe separation of a portion of a fuel fitting during a hard landing resulting in release of fuel and a fire in the balloons basket area. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to follow the manufacturer's published procedures to shut down the…NTSB NYC08CA216Accident · Minor injuriesData collectionFinal reportSchweizer S6S 2-33 · Mercer, PAThe private pilot's improper aircraft handling.