# NTSB investigations: Rolladen-Schneider LS-6: 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 FTW98LA262](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW98LA262.md): Rolladen-Schneider LS-6A · Green River, UT · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Jun 11, 1998 · N511M · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed. Factor's were the unforecasted weather (tail wind) and the inadvertent stall/spin.
- [NTSB FTW91LA119](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW91LA119.md): Rolladen-Schneider LS-6 · Boerne, TX · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Jun 22, 1991 · N6MN · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's failure to release at a higher altitude prior to looking for thermal activity and the pilot's poor in-flight planning. Factors were the downdraft and the tall grass encountered during landing.

## 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 ('3801260')
    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=3801260&occurrence=240

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