# NTSB investigations: Pratt & Whitney PW2040: In flight encounter with weather

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 LAX07LA127](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX07LA127.md): Boeing 757-200 · Los Angeles, CA · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Apr 12, 2007 · N525UA · No damage
  > The flight's encounter with a turbulence event that occurred while the flight attendants were unseated. Contributing to the accident was the apparent conflicting information provided by the flight deck to the flight attendants and the flight attendants'…
- [NTSB CHI06LA099](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI06LA099.md): Boeing 757-222 · Omaha, NE · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Mar 15, 2006 · N518UA · No damage
  > An inadvertent encounter with unforecast mountain wave turbulence during cruise flight. A contributing factor was the mountain wave (terrain induced) turbulence.
- [NTSB CHI03LA113](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI03LA113.md): Boeing 757-222 · Lithonia, GA · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Apr 21, 2003 · N504UA · No damage
  > The flight into adverse weather encountered by the flight crew, and the flight attendant's restraint not available when she was informed to take her seat. The convective associated turbulence was a contributing factor.
- [NTSB LAX02LA146](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX02LA146.md): Boeing 747-422 · Pacific Ocean (Pacific Ocean) · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · May 1, 2002 · N182UA · No damage
  > An in-flight encounter with clear air turbulence and wind shear, which resulted in a serious injury to a flight attendant.
- [NTSB FTW96LA157](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW96LA157.md): Boeing B-757-222 · Taos, NM · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Mar 23, 1996 · N503UA · No damage
  > an encounter with unforecasted clear air turbulence.

## 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."mKey" IN (SELECT x.case_mkey FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_aircrafts.parquet' x WHERE x.engine_model_code IN ('52121')
    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" = 240))
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?engine=52121&occurrence=240

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