# Approach control procedure

- Type: NTSB finding subsection
- Path: [Environmental issues](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03) › [Operating environment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/0301) › [Air traffic/operating proc](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/030140) › Approach control procedure
- NTSB code: 03014015
- Cases: 3
- In the probable cause: 3
- Fatal cases: 2
- All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03014015/cases.md
- Cases with it in the probable cause: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03014015/cases.md?cause=1
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03014015

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

- 2008: 1 / 1
- 2011: 1 / 1
- 2015: 1 / 1

## Defining events in these cases

- [Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240): 1 cases
- [Ground collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200): 1 cases
- [Controlled flight into terr/obj (CFIT)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/120): 1 cases

## Aircraft models (registry)

- [Cessna 206H](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-206h): 1 cases
- [Beech 58](https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-58): 1 cases

## Other findings in the same cases

- [Low visibility](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03035015) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [Conditions/weather/phenomena, general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03030000) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [VHF/HF radio](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03016010) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [Air traffic/operating proc, general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03014000) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [Workload management, general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02064000) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Lack of communication](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063510) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Decision making/judgment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041520) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Lack of action](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041030) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Action/decision, general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02040000) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Recent instrument experience](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02031050) (Personnel issues): 1 cases

## Newest cases

- [NTSB CEN16LA067](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN16LA067), Dec 23, 2015: Hawker 400 (XA-MEX), Telluride, CO, substantial damage. Probable cause: The limitations of the air traffic control equipment that prevented the controller's timely recognition of NOTAM information that was effective immediately and resulted in the issuance of an approach…
- [NTSB CEN11FA302](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN11FA302), Apr 22, 2011: Beech 58 (N580EA), Topeka, KS, destroyed, 4 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot failed to maintain control of the airplane while maneuvering in instrument meteorological conditions. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s minimal experience flying in actual…
- [NTSB CEN09FA083](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN09FA083), Dec 6, 2008: Cessna 206H (N6053B), Kalkaska, MI, destroyed, 1 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from trees and terrain during the instrument-flight-rules flight. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to comply with instrument flight…

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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