# NTSB investigations, 2016, Outside the U.S.: VFR encounter with IMC

NTSB aviation accident and incident investigations since 1962: the probable cause, findings, aircraft, crew, weather and docket of each, linked to the FAA registry and the FAA’s own reports.

## Latest cases

- [NTSB ERA16WA163](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA16WA163.md): Robinson R66 · Bely Island, Russia · Accident · 3 fatal · Foreign investigation · Apr 18, 2016 · RA-06233 · Substantial damage
- [NTSB ERA16WA138](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA16WA138.md): Bell 206B III · Angostura, Colombia · Accident · 3 fatal · Foreign investigation · Mar 22, 2016 · HK4674 · Destroyed
  > On March 23, 2016, about 1211 universal coordinated time, a Bell 206B III, Colombian registration HK4764, was destroyed when it impacted mountainous terrain and was consumed by a postcrash fire. Three of the four occupants were fatally injured, and one…
- [NTSB ERA16WA081](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA16WA081.md): Bell 429 · Rostov-na-Dony, Russia · Accident · Serious injuries · Foreign investigation · Jan 1, 2016 · RA-01617 · Destroyed
  > Subject: ERA16WA081 Bell 429, RA-01617, Rostov-na-Dony, Russia On January 1, 2016, about 0621 universal coordinated time, a Bell 429, Russian registration RA-01617, was substantially damaged by collision with terrain during an uncontrolled descent following a…

## The whole list in SQL

Runs in DuckDB 1.2 or later on the release's Parquet files over HTTPS:

```sql
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 year(c."eventDate") = 2016
  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" = '401' 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
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/401/sequence?state=OF&year=2016

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