# Availability of equipment

- Type: NTSB finding subsection
- Path: [Organizational issues](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04) › [Management](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/0402) › [Resources](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/040220) › Availability of equipment
- NTSB code: 04022020
- Cases: 3
- In the probable cause: 3
- Fatal cases: 2
- All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04022020/cases.md
- Cases with it in the probable cause: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04022020/cases.md?cause=1
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04022020

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

- 2014: 1 / 1
- 2017: 1 / 1
- 2019: 1 / 1

## Defining events in these cases

- [VFR encounter with IMC](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/401): 1 cases
- [Near midair/TCAS alert/loss of separation](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/260): 1 cases
- [Aerodynamic stall/spin](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/241): 1 cases

## Aircraft models (registry)

- [Eurocopter AS 350 B2](https://openairdocs.org/model/eurocopter-as-350-b2): 1 cases
- [Boeing 777-223](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-777-223): 1 cases

## Other findings in the same cases

- [Decision making/judgment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041520) (Personnel issues): 2 cases
- [Adequacy of safety program](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04035015) (Organizational issues): 1 cases
- [Oversight of reg compliance](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04032040) (Organizational issues): 1 cases
- [Emergency proc training](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04031030) (Organizational issues): 1 cases
- [Training, general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04031000) (Organizational issues): 1 cases
- [Interface design](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/04011030) (Organizational issues): 1 cases
- [Below VFR minima](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03035075) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [Aircraft control](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063040) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Identification/recognition](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041510) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Angle of attack](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062042) (Aircraft): 1 cases

## Newest cases

- [NTSB ANC20MA010](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC20MA010), Dec 27, 2019: Airbus AS350B2 (N985SA), Kekaha, HI, destroyed, 7 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot’s decision to continue flight under visual flight rules (VFR) into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), which resulted in the collision into terrain. Contributing to the accident was…
- [NTSB CEN18FA063](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN18FA063), Dec 31, 2017: Cessna 208 (TI-BEI), Punta Islita, Costa Rica, destroyed, 12 fatal. Probable cause: The flight crew's failure to maintain airspeed while maneuvering to exit an area of rising terrain, which resulted in an exceedance of the airplane's critical angle of attack and an aerodynamic…
- [NTSB OPS14IA011](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/OPS14IA011), Aug 16, 2014: Boeing 777 - 236 (N773AN), Shemya, AK, incident, no damage. Probable cause: The air traffic controller’s failure to identify a conflict between two aircraft and to issue an adequate clearance, which resulted in a loss of required separation. Contributing to the incident was…

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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