# Major NTSB investigations: Near collision between aircraft

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 ATL89MA012](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL89MA012.md): Aerospatiale ATR-42-300 · Yardley, PA · Incident · No injuries · Major investigation · Final report · Oct 12, 1988 · N17810 · 2 aircraft · No damage
  > Bfr tkof, corrected flt plan was put in ATC computer for airforce 1 (AF1) to take nonstandard rte to newark. After tkof,AF1 was vctrd nw with handoff to NY ARTCC (zny), then east via Yardley (ard) to newark; 15 mi west of ard, zny initiatedhandoff to NY…
- [NTSB CHI86MA216](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI86MA216.md): Boeing 737-222 · Lansing, MI · Incident · No injuries · Major investigation · Final report · Aug 30, 1986 · N749N · 2 aircraft · No damage
  > Piedmont flt PI255 (a Boeing 737, N749N) was dscndg in visual conds on an IFR clnc when it & a twin commanche (Piper PA-30, N7399Y) converged & passed within a rprtd 50 to 100 ft of each other. The near collision occurred as the PA-30 was cruising westbound…
- [NTSB CHI86MA142](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI86MA142.md): Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-31 · Chicago, IL · Incident · No injuries · Major investigation · Final report · May 17, 1986 · N973VJ · 2 aircraft · Minor damage
  > U.S. Air flight 373 passed over American airlines flight 695 at the intersection of runways 32R and 4L while both aircraft were taking off. Both aircraft had been cleared for takeoff by the local controller at o'hare tower. The aircraft came within twenty…
- [NTSB LAX86MA151](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX86MA151.md): Boeing 727-231 · Cincinnati, OH · Incident · No injuries · Major investigation · Final report · Mar 22, 1986 · N64315 · 2 aircraft · No damage
  > Indianapolis ctr (ctlr-a) clrd sluff 11 (S-11), a flt of 4 ANG A-7'S, to clb to FL210. Later, ctlr-a told S-11 to chg freq (to york low sector, ctlr-b). S-11 chgd freq, but neither S-11 nor ctlr-b established rdo contact with each other until S-11 had contd…

## 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.board_report_url IS NOT NULL OR c."investigationClass" = 'Class 1' OR c."caseType" = 'Major - Launch')
  AND c."mKey" IN (SELECT o.case_mkey FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_occurrences.parquet' o WHERE o."occurrenceNumber" = 1 AND o."occurrenceCode" = 280)
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?major=1&occurrence=280

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