# Time/schedule pressure - Type: NTSB finding subsection - Path: [Environmental issues](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03) › [Task environment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/0304) › [Pressures/demands](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/030420) › Time/schedule pressure - NTSB code: 03042010 - Cases: 10 - In the probable cause: 8 - Fatal cases: 6 - All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03042010/cases.md - Cases with it in the probable cause: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03042010/cases.md?cause=1 - Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03042010 ## Cases per year (in the probable cause / all) - 2014: 1 / 1 - 2015: 1 / 2 - 2016: 1 / 1 - 2019: 1 / 1 - 2022: 1 / 1 - 2024: 1 / 2 - 2026: 2 / 2 ## Defining events in these cases - [Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240): 4 cases - [VFR encounter with IMC](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/401): 2 cases - [Electrical system malf/failure](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/332): 1 cases - [Ground collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200): 1 cases - [Fuel exhaustion](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/192): 1 cases - [Hard landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/092): 1 cases ## Aircraft models (registry) - [Piper PA 46-350P](https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-46-350p): 1 cases - [Piper PA-28R-201T](https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28r-201t): 1 cases - [Extra Flugzeugbau EA 300/L](https://openairdocs.org/model/extra-flugzeugbau-ea-300-l): 1 cases - [Diamond Aircraft Ind DA 40 NG](https://openairdocs.org/model/diamond-aircraft-ind-da-40-ng): 1 cases - [Cessna 182G](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-182g): 1 cases - [Cessna 150G](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-150g): 1 cases - [Bell 407](https://openairdocs.org/model/bell-407): 1 cases - [Beech A36](https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-a36): 1 cases - [Hogan Richard N INNOVATOR](https://openairdocs.org/model/hogan-richard-n-innovator): 1 cases - [Scaled Composites 339](https://openairdocs.org/model/scaled-composites-339): 1 cases ## Other findings in the same cases - [Aircraft control](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063040) (Personnel issues): 4 cases - [Decision making/judgment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041520) (Personnel issues): 4 cases - [Low ceiling](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03035010) (Environmental issues): 2 cases - [Identification/recognition](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041510) (Personnel issues): 2 cases - [Pitch control](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062022) (Aircraft): 2 cases - [Oversight of reg compliance](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04032040) (Organizational issues): 1 cases - [Oversight of maintenance](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04032020) (Organizational issues): 1 cases - [Resources, general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04022000) (Organizational issues): 1 cases - [Equipment design](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04011010) (Organizational issues): 1 cases - [Financial pressure](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03042015) (Environmental issues): 1 cases ## Newest cases - [NTSB CEN26LA249](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN26LA249), Jul 10, 2026: Cessna 150 (N3773J), Ellsworth, KS, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot’s inadequate preflight fuel planning which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s self-induced pressure to complete… - [NTSB CEN26LA145](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN26LA145), Mar 24, 2026: Classic Waco YMF (N43000), Galveston, TX, substantial damage. Probable cause: The biplane pilot’s failure to maintain an adequate visual lookout while taxiing, which included the failure to perform S-turns to compensate for limited forward visibility. - [NTSB WPR24LA265](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR24LA265), Aug 3, 2024: Bell 407 (N20BH), Raft River, ID, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot’s misdiagnosis of an erroneous engine instrument indication and his subsequent decision to enter an autorotation, which resulted in a hard landing due to degraded visual cues and low… - [NTSB WPR24FA156](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR24FA156), May 19, 2024: Extra Flugzeugbau EA 300/L (N22MW), Bandera, WA, substantial damage, 1 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot’s decision to continue flight into icing conditions and inclement weather, which likely led to spatial disorientation when he attempted to divert from the planned course to the destination… - [NTSB ERA23FA048](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA23FA048), Nov 3, 2022: Beech A36 (N84R), Harlan, KY, destroyed, 1 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot’s visual flight rules flight into instrument meteorological conditions during an approach to land at an airport in mountainous terrain, which resulted in controlled flight into terrain.… - [NTSB ERA19FA134](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA19FA134), Mar 23, 2019: Hogan Innovator (N257AR), Calhoun, GA, substantial damage, 1 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the airplane's second test flight, which resulted in a collision with terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot allowing external… - [NTSB WPR16FA178](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR16FA178), Sep 12, 2016: Piper PA 28R-201T (N821ET), Reno, NV, destroyed, 3 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot's decision to depart with the airplane loaded above its maximum gross weight and at or just beyond its aft center of gravity limitations, which resulted in a loss of control during the… - [NTSB GAA16CA081](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA16CA081), Nov 28, 2015: Cessna 182 (N2000R), Salisbury, NC, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot's failure to maintain pitch control during the landing flare, causing the airplane to balloon and land hard. - [NTSB WPR15FA158](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR15FA158), May 7, 2015: Piper PA 46 350P (N962DA), Spokane, WA, destroyed, 2 fatal. Probable cause: The mechanic's incorrect installation of two aileron cables and the subsequent inadequate functional checks of the aileron system before flight by both the mechanic and the pilot, which prevented… - [NTSB DCA15MA019](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA15MA019), Oct 31, 2014: Scaled Composites 339 (N339SS), Koehn Dry Lake, CA, destroyed, 1 fatal. Probable cause: Scaled Composites' failure to consider and protect against the possibility that a single human error could result in a catastrophic hazard to the SpaceShipTwo vehicle. This failure set the stage for… 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.