# Datalink

- Type: NTSB finding subsection
- Path: [Environmental issues](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03) › [Operating environment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/0301) › [Communication system](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/030160) › Datalink
- NTSB code: 03016020
- Cases: 1
- In the probable cause: 1
- Fatal cases: 1
- All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03016020/cases.md
- Cases with it in the probable cause: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03016020/cases.md?cause=1
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03016020

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

- 2008: 1 / 1

## Defining events in these cases

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

## Aircraft models (registry)

- [Aerospatiale SA365N-1 DAUPHIN](https://openairdocs.org/model/aerospatiale-sa365n-1-dauphin): 1 cases

## Other findings in the same cases

- [Safety programs, general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04035000) (Organizational issues): 1 cases
- [Oversight of operation](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04032015) (Organizational issues): 1 cases
- [Adequacy of policy/proc](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04021015) (Organizational issues): 1 cases
- [Fog](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03035055) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [Workload management, general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02064000) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Use of policy/procedure](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063032) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Incorrect action selection](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041010) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Recent instrument experience](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02031050) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Descent/approach/glide path](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062040) (Aircraft): 1 cases
- [Ground proximity system](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01023444) (Aircraft): 1 cases

## Newest cases

- [NTSB MIA08MA203](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA08MA203), Sep 28, 2008: Aerospatiale SA365N-1 D (N92MD), District Heights, MD, substantial damage, 4 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot's attempt to regain visual conditions by performing a rapid descent and his failure to arrest the descent at the minimum descent altitude during a nonprecision approach. 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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