# Total experience

- Type: NTSB finding subsection
- Path: [Personnel issues](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02) › [Experience/knowledge](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/0203) › [Experience/qualifications](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/020310) › Total experience
- NTSB code: 02031015
- Cases: 126
- In the probable cause: 79
- Fatal cases: 41
- All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02031015/cases.md
- Cases with it in the probable cause: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02031015/cases.md?cause=1
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02031015

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

- 2008: 12 / 14
- 2009: 9 / 13
- 2010: 4 / 6
- 2011: 4 / 6
- 2012: 7 / 10
- 2013: 7 / 13
- 2014: 4 / 7
- 2015: 2 / 9
- 2016: 4 / 5
- 2017: 4 / 5
- 2018: 5 / 7
- 2019: 7 / 10
- 2020: 3 / 4
- 2021: 1 / 3
- 2022: 3 / 7
- 2023: 0 / 3
- 2024: 3 / 4

## Defining events in these cases

- [Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240): 34 cases
- [Loss of control on ground](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/230): 18 cases
- [Hard landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/092): 13 cases
- [Collision during takeoff/land](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/490): 9 cases
- [Aerodynamic stall/spin](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/241): 6 cases
- [Controlled flight into terr/obj (CFIT)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/120): 6 cases
- [Abnormal runway contact](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/090): 6 cases
- [Loss of engine power (total)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/341): 5 cases
- [Fuel exhaustion](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/192): 3 cases
- [Miscellaneous/other](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/900): 2 cases

## Aircraft models (registry)

- [Cessna 172S](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172s): 6 cases
- [Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA](https://openairdocs.org/model/robinson-helicopter-r22-beta): 3 cases
- [Piper PA-28-161](https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-161): 3 cases
- [Piper PA-28-140](https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-140): 3 cases
- [Cessna 172M](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172m): 3 cases
- [Cessna 172](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172): 3 cases
- [Cessna 152](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-152): 3 cases
- [Piper PA-28-181](https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-181): 2 cases
- [Cessna 172N](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172n): 2 cases
- [Cessna 150L](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-150l): 2 cases

## Other findings in the same cases

- [Aircraft control](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063040) (Personnel issues): 76 cases
- [Decision making/judgment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041520) (Personnel issues): 27 cases
- [Directional control](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062020) (Aircraft): 22 cases
- [Landing flare](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062041) (Aircraft): 13 cases
- [Tree(s)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03022020) (Environmental issues): 11 cases
- [Qualification/certification](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02031010) (Personnel issues): 11 cases
- [Altitude](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062012) (Aircraft): 11 cases
- [Performance/control parameters, general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062000) (Aircraft): 11 cases
- [Incorrect action performance](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041015) (Personnel issues): 10 cases
- [Delayed action](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041025) (Personnel issues): 9 cases

## Newest cases

- [NTSB WPR25LA060](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR25LA060), Dec 12, 2024: Zall Jihlavan Airplanes S R O JA-600 Skyleader (N789RC), Reedley, CA, substantial damage. Probable cause: The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in a runway excursion.
- [NTSB ERA24LA343](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA24LA343), Aug 10, 2024: Yakovlev YAK-55M (N55YA), North Kingstown, RI, substantial damage. Probable cause: The non-certificated pilot’s lack of experience in the tailwheel-equipped airplane and his decision to land in a quartering tailwind, which resulted in a loss of directional control on landing.
- [NTSB ANC24LA023](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC24LA023), Apr 8, 2024: Cessna 150L (N19390), Deer Park, WA, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot’s improper landing flare which resulted in the airplane contacting the ground short of the runway.
- [NTSB CEN24LA149](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN24LA149), Apr 5, 2024: Van's RV-12iS (N245EM), Lake Elmo, MN, substantial damage. Probable cause: The student pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing, and the nose gear collapsing. Contributing to the accident was the student pilot’s lack of experience.
- [NTSB WPR23LA274](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR23LA274), Jul 10, 2023: Cessna 172N (N3307E), Long Beach, CA, substantial damage. Probable cause: The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing and the subsequent go-around, which resulted in impact with a hangar.
- [NTSB WPR23LA238](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR23LA238), Jun 17, 2023: Piper PA-28-181 (N28034), Mesa, AZ, substantial damage. Probable cause: The student pilot’s improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
- [NTSB CEN23LA225](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN23LA225), Jun 2, 2023: Skykits Savannah VGW (N341JD), Flippin, AR, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot's loss of directional control during takeoff.
- [NTSB CEN23FA059](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN23FA059), Dec 5, 2022: Engineering & Research Ercoupe 415-C (N99345), Corning, IA, destroyed, 1 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from obstructions during a go-around, which resulted in impact with powerlines, a tree, and the ground.
- [NTSB WPR22FA345](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR22FA345), Sep 13, 2022: Piper PA46 (N43605), Seligman, AZ, substantial damage, 2 fatal. Probable cause: The student pilot’s continued visual flight into instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in spatial disorientation, a loss of control, exceedance of the airplane’s design limitations,…
- [NTSB ANC22FA053](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC22FA053), Jul 12, 2022: Champion 7EC (N4340C), Valdez, AK, destroyed, 1 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot’s decision to continue visual flight rules flight into instrument meteorological conditions which resulted in loss of control and collision with terrain.

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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