# NTSB investigations: Lycoming IO-540 series, AL: In flight collision with object

NTSB aviation accident and incident investigations since 1962: the probable cause, findings, aircraft, crew, weather and docket of each, linked to the FAA registry and the FAA’s own reports.

## Latest cases

- [NTSB ATL06FA038](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL06FA038.md): Piper PA-32R-300 · Camden, AL · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Jan 28, 2006 · N38510 · Destroyed
  > The pilots failure to maintain altitude and clearance during a visual descent which resulting in an in-flight collision with trees and the ground for undetermined reasons.
- [NTSB ATL01FA019](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL01FA019.md): Cessna 206H · Vandiver, AL · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Jan 12, 2001 · N2468G · Destroyed
  > The pilot's inflight decision to continued visual flight into instrument meteorological conditions resulted in the inflight collision with trees. Low ceilings and trees were factors
- [NTSB ATL84FA083](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL84FA083.md): Piper PA-32RT-300 · Attalla, AL · Accident · 2 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Jan 16, 1984 · N31844 · Destroyed
  > During a VOR approach to land in IMC wx, the acft collided with a tree. The non-instrument rated plt had filed an IFR flt plan on this and other occasions even though he was not qualified. During this approach, the descent was continued past the mda of 960…

## The whole list in SQL

Runs in DuckDB 1.2 or later on the release's Parquet files over HTTPS:

```sql
SELECT c."ntsbNumber", c."eventDate", c."eventType", c."eventCity", c."eventStateOrRegion", a.n_number, a."aircraftMake", a."aircraftModel", c."highestInjuryLevel", c."totalFatal", c."completionStatus", c.report_url
FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_case_detail.parquet' c LEFT JOIN 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_aircrafts.parquet' a ON a.case_mkey = c."mKey" AND a.position = 1
WHERE c."eventStateOrRegion" = 'AL' AND c."eventCountry" = 'USA'
  AND c."mKey" IN (SELECT x.case_mkey FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_aircrafts.parquet' x WHERE x.engine_model_code IN ('41530', '41585')
    AND EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_occurrences.parquet' o WHERE o.case_mkey = x.case_mkey AND o.aircrafts_position = x.position AND o."occurrenceNumber" = 1 AND o."occurrenceCode" = 220))
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?engine=41530&occurrence=220&state=AL

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