# Attitude & direction

- Type: NTSB finding subsection
- Path: [Aircraft](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01) › [Aircraft systems](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/0102) › [Navigation system](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/010234) › Attitude & direction
- NTSB code: 01023420
- Cases: 2
- In the probable cause: 1
- Fatal cases: 1
- All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01023420/cases.md
- Cases with it in the probable cause: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01023420/cases.md?cause=1
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01023420

## Cases per year (in the probable cause / all)

- 2014: 1 / 1
- 2022: 0 / 1

## Defining events in these cases

- [Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240): 2 cases

## Aircraft models (registry)

- [Fairchild SA227-AT](https://openairdocs.org/model/fairchild-sa227-at): 1 cases
- [Hermann Bjorn LANCAIR IV](https://openairdocs.org/model/hermann-bjorn-lancair-iv): 1 cases

## Other findings in the same cases

- [Clouds](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03035025) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [Aircraft control](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063040) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Decision making/judgment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041520) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Identification/recognition](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041510) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Spatial disorientation](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02022025) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [OTC medication](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02012030) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Angle of attack](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062042) (Aircraft): 1 cases
- [Airspeed](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062010) (Aircraft): 1 cases
- [Maximum weight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01061035) (Aircraft): 1 cases

## Newest cases

- [NTSB CEN23LA037](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN23LA037), Nov 15, 2022: Fairchild SA227-AT (N247DH), Pewaukee, WI, substantial damage. Probable cause: The flight crew’s failure to maintain adequate airspeed and their exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack during the instrument approach, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.…
- [NTSB CEN14FA278](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN14FA278), Jun 7, 2014: Hermann Bjorn Lancair IV (N86NW), Duluth, MN, substantial damage, 1 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot's failure to maintain airplane control while operating in instrument flight rules (IFR) conditions, which was due to spatial disorientation resulting from erroneous heading and bank angle…

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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