# NTSB investigations: Beech 77: 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 LAX91LA118](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX91LA118.md): Beech BE-77 · Carmel Valley, CA · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Mar 2, 1991 · N3846X · Destroyed
  > The failure of the PIC to supervise a non-certificated pilot and to maintain adequate airspeed with subsequent collision with trees. Contributing to the accident was the failure of the PIC to obtain a weather briefing and assess hazardous wind conditions and…
- [NTSB LAX90LA214](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX90LA214.md): Beech 77 · Taft, CA · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Jun 8, 1990 · N6629D · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's improper remedial action. Related to this accident was the pilot's inadvertent encounter with unfavorable winds.
- [NTSB LAX90FA019](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX90FA019.md): Beech 77 · Kalihi, HI · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Oct 31, 1989 · N3731X · Destroyed
  > VFR flight by the pilot into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), and his failure to maintain sufficient altitude and clearance from mountainous terrain. The adverse weather and terrain conditions were related factors.
- [NTSB CHI84FA054](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI84FA054.md): Beech 77 · Sidney, OH · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Dec 4, 1983 · N37253 · Destroyed
  > The aircrew took off on an IFR flt from dayton to piqua & Sidney, OH to practice apch's, then they intended to return to dayton. The copilot stated that they entered the clouds at 700 to 800 ft AGL & he did not see the ground again on this flt. He reported…

## 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.aircraft_model_code IN ('1153007')
    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?model=1153007&occurrence=240

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