# Sand/dust storm

- Type: NTSB finding subsection
- Path: [Environmental issues](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03) › [Conditions/weather/phenomena](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/0303) › [Ceiling/visibility/precip](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/030350) › Sand/dust storm
- NTSB code: 03035065
- Cases: 1
- In the probable cause: 1
- Fatal cases: 0
- All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03035065/cases.md
- Cases with it in the probable cause: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03035065/cases.md?cause=1
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03035065

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

- 2008: 1 / 1

## Defining events in these cases

- [Loss of visual reference](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/402): 1 cases

## Aircraft models (registry)

- [Eurocopter AS 350 B3](https://openairdocs.org/model/eurocopter-as-350-b3): 1 cases

## Other findings in the same cases

- [Dark](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03036020) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [Decision making/judgment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041520) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Spatial disorientation](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02022025) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Descent/approach/glide path](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062040) (Aircraft): 1 cases
- [Climb rate](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062035) (Aircraft): 1 cases

## Newest cases

- [NTSB LAX08LA198](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX08LA198), Jun 27, 2008: Eurocopter AS 350 B3 (N586AE), Ash Fork, AZ, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot's spatial disorientation resulting in his failure to detect and compensate for an unintentional descent during a go-around. Contributing to the accident were the pilot's inadequate choice…

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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