# NTSB investigations: Cessna P172D: Hard landing

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 CHI86LA060](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI86LA060.md): Cessna 172M · Anderson, IN · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Jan 6, 1986 · N8521X · Substantial damage
  > The acft touched down hard on the nose gear during a x-wind landing. The plt reported the acft dropped to the rwy from an alt of aprx 10 ft AGL. Reported winds at the time of the accident were from 240 degs at 15 KTS gusting to 23 KTS.
- [NTSB LAX84LA458](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX84LA458.md): Cessna P172D · Livermore, CA · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Aug 21, 1984 · N8530X · Substantial damage
  > According to the plt, the acft landed hard and porpoised several times before the landing was aborted. The second landing was uneventful. Subsequent inspection of the acft revealed that both wings and the fuselage were buckled and the lower engine mounts were…

## 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 ('2072202')
    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" = 200))
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?model=2072202&occurrence=200

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