# Meteorological services - Type: NTSB finding section - Path: [Environmental issues](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03) › [Operating environment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/0301) › Meteorological services - NTSB code: 030130 - Cases: 13 - In the probable cause: 7 - Fatal cases: 6 - All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/030130/cases.md - Cases with it in the probable cause: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/030130/cases.md?cause=1 - Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/030130 ## Cases per year (in the probable cause / all) - 2008: 1 / 1 - 2010: 0 / 1 - 2012: 1 / 1 - 2014: 0 / 3 - 2015: 1 / 1 - 2016: 1 / 1 - 2017: 0 / 1 - 2019: 0 / 1 - 2021: 1 / 1 - 2023: 1 / 1 - 2024: 1 / 1 ## Findings - [Meteorological services, general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03013000): 4 cases, 1 in the probable cause - [Meteo equip coverage/avail](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03013010): 3 cases, 1 in the probable cause - [Automated weather](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03013030): 3 cases, 2 in the probable cause - [Other weather service](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03013035): 2 cases, 2 in the probable cause - [NWS weather](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03013020): 1 cases, 1 in the probable cause ## Defining events in these cases - [Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240): 4 cases - [Miscellaneous/other](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/900): 1 cases - [Collision during takeoff/land](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/490): 1 cases - [VFR encounter with IMC](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/401): 1 cases - [Flight control sys malf/fail](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/333): 1 cases - [Loss of control on ground](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/230): 1 cases - [Structural icing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/210): 1 cases - [Controlled flight into terr/obj (CFIT)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/120): 1 cases - [Airport occurrence](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/070): 1 cases - [Unknown or undetermined](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000): 1 cases ## Aircraft models (registry) - [Bell 407](https://openairdocs.org/model/bell-407): 2 cases - [Mooney M20K](https://openairdocs.org/model/mooney-m20k): 1 cases - [Gates Learjet 35A](https://openairdocs.org/model/gates-learjet-35a): 1 cases - [Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-83(MD-83)](https://openairdocs.org/model/mcdonnell-douglas-dc-9-83-md-83): 1 cases - [Dehavilland DHC-3](https://openairdocs.org/model/dehavilland-dhc-3): 1 cases - [Cessna 340](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-340): 1 cases - [Cessna 421C](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-421c): 1 cases - [Cessna 208B](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-208b): 1 cases - [Cessna 210-5A(205A)](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-210-5a-205a): 1 cases - [Cessna 180](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-180): 1 cases ## Other findings in the same cases - [Decision making/judgment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041520) (Personnel issues): 5 cases - [Gusts](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03034045) (Environmental issues): 4 cases - [Aircraft control](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063040) (Personnel issues): 4 cases - [Adequacy of policy/proc](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04021015) (Organizational issues): 3 cases - [Low visibility](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03035015) (Environmental issues): 3 cases - [Altitude](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062012) (Aircraft): 3 cases - [Below VFR minima](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03035075) (Environmental issues): 2 cases - [Snow](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03035045) (Environmental issues): 2 cases - [Terrain, general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03021000) (Environmental issues): 2 cases - [Use of equip/system](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063015) (Personnel issues): 2 cases ## Newest cases - [NTSB WPR24LA068](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR24LA068), Jan 8, 2024: Cessna 421C (N421TP), Carson City, NV, substantial damage. Probable cause: Airport personnel’s failure to properly prioritize their response actions, including updating the airport’s automated weather observation system recording in a timely manner to notify incoming pilots… - [NTSB ANC23LA065](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC23LA065), Aug 27, 2023: Beech B36TC (N6709Q), Cape Yakataga, AK, destroyed, 2 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot’s continued flight into moderate to severe icing conditions, including supercooled large droplets, over mountainous terrain, which resulted in a loss of control and impact with terrain.… - [NTSB WPR22FA068](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR22FA068), Dec 28, 2021: Gates Learjet 35A (N880Z), El Cajon, CA, destroyed, 4 fatal. Probable cause: The flight crew’s decision to descend below the published MDA, cancel their IFR clearance to conduct an unauthorized circle-to-land approach to another runway while the airport was in nighttime IFR… - [NTSB CEN19FA072](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN19FA072), Jan 29, 2019: Bell 407 (N191SF), Zaleski, OH, destroyed, 3 fatal. Probable cause: The NTSB determines that the probable cause of this accident was Survival Flight's inadequate management of safety, which normalized pilots' and operations control specialists' noncompliance with… - [NTSB DCA17FA076](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA17FA076), Mar 8, 2017: Mcdonnell Douglas MD80 (N786TW), Ypsilanti, MI, substantial damage. Probable cause: the jammed condition of the airplane's right elevator, which resulted from exposure to localized, dynamic wind while the airplane was parked and rendered the airplane unable to rotate during takeoff.… - [NTSB ANC17MA001](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC17MA001), Oct 2, 2016: Cessna 208B (N208SD), Togiak, AK, destroyed, 3 fatal. Probable cause: The flight crew's decision to continue the visual flight rules flight into deteriorating visibility and their failure to perform an immediate escape maneuver after entry into instrument… - [NTSB CEN15LA288](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN15LA288), Jun 28, 2015: Bell 407 - NO Series (N311RL), South Timbalier 127, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot's lack of awareness of the severity of the gusting winds, which led to the helicopter being pushed off of the oil platform by a wind gust during engine start. Contributing to the accident… - [NTSB CEN15FA044](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN15FA044), Nov 13, 2014: Mooney M20K (N231JF), Clines Corners, NM, destroyed, 1 fatal. Probable cause: The noninstrument-rated pilot's decision to initiate the flight into known deteriorating weather conditions and his continued visual flight into instrument meteorological conditions, which ultimately… - [NTSB ERA14CA185](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA14CA185), Apr 8, 2014: Cessna 205A (N4862U), Leesburg, VA, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot's inadequate compensation for the wind conditions during landing, resulting in a runway excursion and impact with terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's inadequate evaluation… - [NTSB CEN14CA114](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN14CA114), Jan 15, 2014: Cessna 340 (N10MF), Coldwater, MI, substantial damage. Probable cause: Airport personnel did not remove the snow banks from the intersecting runway and/or close the intersection runway, which resulted in the airplane impacting the snow banks. Contributing to the… 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. --- OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.