# Temporal disorientation

- Type: NTSB finding subsection
- Path: [Personnel issues](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02) › [Psychological](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/0202) › [Perception/orientation/illusion](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/020220) › Temporal disorientation
- NTSB code: 02022020
- Cases: 1
- In the probable cause: 1
- Fatal cases: 1
- All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02022020/cases.md
- Cases with it in the probable cause: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02022020/cases.md?cause=1
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02022020

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

- 2021: 1 / 1

## Defining events in these cases

- [Controlled flight into terr/obj (CFIT)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/120): 1 cases

## Aircraft models (registry)

- [Piper PA-28-161](https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-161): 1 cases

## Other findings in the same cases

- [Identification/recognition](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041510) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Altitude](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062012) (Aircraft): 1 cases

## Newest cases

- [NTSB ERA21LA111](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA21LA111), Jan 25, 2021: Piper PA-28-161 (N266ND), Boynton Beach, FL, substantial damage, 1 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot’s controlled flight into the ocean at night due to his unrecognized spatial disorientation. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s distraction with the tuning of his transponder while…

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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