# NTSB investigations: Cessna 320C: 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 FTW96FA390](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW96FA390.md): Cessna 320C · Waco, TX · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Sep 19, 1996 · N3020T · Destroyed
  > VFR flight by the pilot into instrument meteorological conditions, and his failure to maintain sufficient altitude or clearance from the terrain. Factors relating to the accident were: inadequate preflight by the pilot, his failure to obtain a weather…
- [NTSB IAD96FA090](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/IAD96FA090.md): Cessna 320C · Winslow, ME · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Jun 3, 1996 · N78KA · Destroyed
  > the pilot's continued flight into known adverse weather conditions, and his loss of aircraft control, which resulted in an uncontrolled descent into terrain (river). The known icing condition was a related factor.
- [NTSB LAX84FA453](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX84FA453.md): Cessna 320C · Monterey, CA · Accident · 5 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Aug 24, 1984 · N7AE · Destroyed
  > The flt arrived in Monterey, CA, that afternoon. After dinner the flt was returning to the point of original departure. When the plt contacted the twr for taxi instruction he was informed that Monterey wx was below VFR minimums. After a discussion of wx…

## 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 ('2074510')
    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=2074510&occurrence=240

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