# Navigation error

- Type: NTSB defining event
- NTSB code: 280
- CICTT category: Navigation Error
- Defining event in: 8 cases
- In the sequence of: 21 cases
- Fatal cases: 0
- All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/280/cases.md
- Cases with it anywhere in the sequence: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/280/sequence.md
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/280

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

- 2009: 1 / 1
- 2013: 0 / 2
- 2014: 0 / 1
- 2017: 2 / 3
- 2018: 3 / 3
- 2020: 1 / 1
- 2021: 0 / 1
- 2022: 1 / 2
- 2023: 0 / 1
- 2024: 0 / 2
- 2025: 0 / 4

## Phase of flight

- Approach: 2 cases
- Taxi-from runway: 2 cases
- Approach-IFR initial approach: 1 cases
- Enroute-descent: 1 cases
- Enroute: 1 cases
- Takeoff: 1 cases

## In the probable cause of these cases

- [Decision making/judgment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041520) (Personnel issues): 2 cases
- [Glare](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03036030) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [Dark](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03036020) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [Use of available resources](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063035) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Use of equip/system](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063015) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Knowledge of procedures](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02032010) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Monitoring other person](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021535) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Altitude](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062012) (Aircraft): 1 cases
- [Instrument panel](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01023110) (Aircraft): 1 cases

## Aircraft models (registry)

- [Piper PA-28R-201](https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28r-201): 1 cases
- [Airbus A320-214](https://openairdocs.org/model/airbus-a320-214): 1 cases
- [Cessna 172P](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172p): 1 cases
- [Cessna 172L](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172l): 1 cases
- [Bombardier CL-600-2D24](https://openairdocs.org/model/bombardier-cl-600-2d24): 1 cases

## Newest cases

- [NTSB ERA23LA031](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA23LA031), Oct 15, 2022: Cessna 172P (N63663), Elizabethtown, KY, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot's decision to continue the taxi without visual reference to the surface, due to his vision being impaired by darkness and glare, which resulted in the airplane’s departure from the paved…
- [NTSB DCA20WA117](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA20WA117), Jun 8, 2020: Boeing 787 (A6-BMD), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, incident, no damage
- [NTSB CEN19CA017](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN19CA017), Oct 28, 2018: Piper PA28R (N6899C), Hobbs, NM, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot's incorrect altimeter setting during the night visual approach, which resulted in a controlled flight into terrain.
- [NTSB DCA18WA136](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA18WA136), Feb 18, 2018: Boeing 737 (unknown), Ballina/Byron Gateway Aerodome, Australia, incident, no damage
- [NTSB DCA18WA134](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA18WA134), Feb 5, 2018: Boeing 717 (unknown), Melbourne, Australia, incident, no damage
- [NTSB OPS18IA003](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/OPS18IA003), Dec 25, 2017: Bombardier CL600 2D24 (N162PQ), Medford, OR, incident, no damage. Probable cause: The incident was caused by the air traffic controller assigning an altitude below the published procedure altitude for the approach segment to be flown prior to the aircraft being established on a…
- [NTSB DCA17WA170](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA17WA170), Jul 3, 2017: Airbus A320 214 (N742AV), Cali, Colombia, incident, no damage
- [NTSB ANC09LA069](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC09LA069), Jul 18, 2009: Cessna 172L (N7136Q), Anchorage, AK, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot's unfamiliarity with the airport environment, which resulted in his taxiing the airplane onto a no-taxi section of roadway and into a road sign. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's…

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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