# Approach/departure

- Type: NTSB finding subsection
- Path: [Environmental issues](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03) › [Operating environment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/0301) › [Radar services/coverage](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/030150) › Approach/departure
- NTSB code: 03015015
- Cases: 2
- In the probable cause: 2
- Fatal cases: 2
- All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03015015/cases.md
- Cases with it in the probable cause: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03015015/cases.md?cause=1
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03015015

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

- 2014: 1 / 1
- 2024: 1 / 1

## Defining events in these cases

- [Midair collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/250): 1 cases
- [Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240): 1 cases

## Aircraft models (registry)

- [Robinson Helicopter R44 II](https://openairdocs.org/model/robinson-helicopter-r44-ii): 1 cases
- [Cirrus Design SR22](https://openairdocs.org/model/cirrus-design-sr22): 1 cases
- [Beech V35](https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-v35): 1 cases

## Other findings in the same cases

- [Availability of policy/proc](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04021010) (Organizational issues): 1 cases
- [Rain](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03035035) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [Convective turbulence](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03032020) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [Weather radar](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03015025) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [ATC clearance procedure](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03014020) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [Task allocation](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02064020) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Incorrect action performance](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041015) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Spatial disorientation](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02022025) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Monitoring environment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021545) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Monitoring other aircraft](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021540) (Personnel issues): 1 cases

## Newest cases

- [NTSB ERA24FA217](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA24FA217), May 15, 2024: Beech V35 (N47WT), Franklin, TN, destroyed, 3 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot’s flight into convective weather, which resulted in a loss of control due to spatial disorientation and a subsequent inflight breakup of the airplane. Contributing to the accident was the…
- [NTSB ERA15FA025](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA15FA025), Oct 23, 2014: Cirrus Design SR22 (N122ES), Frederick, MD, substantial damage, 3 fatal. Probable cause: The failure of the helicopter pilots and the airplane pilot to maintain an adequate visual lookout for known traffic in the traffic pattern, which resulted in a midair collision. 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.

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