# NTSB investigations: Airbus Industrie A320-211

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 DCA23LA067](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA23LA067.md): Airbus A320 · Red Oak, IA · Accident · No injuries · Class 4 · Limited · Final report · Nov 20, 2022 · N330NW · Substantial damage
  > Multiple bird strikes during descent.
- [NTSB DCA16IA200](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA16IA200.md): Airbus Industrie A320 211 · Rapid City, SD · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Jul 8, 2016 · N333NW · No damage
  > The flight crew's misidentification of the desired landing runway due to excess altitude requiring an extended downwind, and failure to use all available navigation information.
- [NTSB OPS15IA020](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/OPS15IA020.md): Airbus Industrie A320 211 · Max, NE · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Aug 8, 2015 · N332NW · Minor damage
  > The flight crew's continued flight into a closing gap between areas of thunderstorm activity and their failure to maintain the required lateral separation from the thunderstorms, which resulted in the airplane's encounter with hail and subsequent airplane…
- [NTSB DCA13CA091](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA13CA091.md): Airbus 320 · Dallas, TX · Accident · Serious injuries · Data collection · Final report · May 9, 2013 · N327NW · No damage
  > The flight attendant's inadvertent trip over the jumpseat that had not retracted automatically.
- [NTSB DCA12CA043](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA12CA043.md): Airbus Industrie A320 211 · Minneapolis, MN · Accident · No injuries · Data collection · Final report · Nov 10, 2011 · N331NW · Substantial damage
  > In-flight collision with birds during initial climb, which resulted in substantial damage to the aircraft.
- [NTSB DCA09FA047](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA09FA047.md): Airbus A320 · Denver, CO · Accident · Minor injuries · Field investigation · Final report · May 4, 2009 · N311US · Substantial damage
  > The first officer’s excessive pitch-up of the airplane while landing with a tailwind, which resulted in a tailstrike following a bounced landing. Contributing to the bounced landing were a high descent rate and excessive thrust resulting from the first…
- [NTSB CHI08IA022](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI08IA022.md): Airbus Industrie A320-211 · Fargo, ND · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Oct 21, 2007 · N331NW · Minor damage
  > The failure of the Brake and Steering Control Unit, which allowed the nose landing gear to turn to the 90-degree position.
- [NTSB CHI03LA031](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI03LA031.md): Airbus Industrie A320-211 · Minneapolis, MN · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Nov 29, 2002 · N324US · No damage
  > The cabin flight crew not verifying the galley service cart had been properly stowed prior to departure, which resulted in the inadvertent deployment of the galley service cart during initial climb after takeoff.
- [NTSB CHI97IA034](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI97IA034.md): Airbus Industrie A-320-211 · Romulus, MI · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Nov 24, 1996 · N310NW · No damage
  > restricted movement of the autopilot mode engagement/disengagement lever bearing in the rudder artificial feel and trim unit. A factor relating to this incident was: company management not implementing the respective service bulletin.
- [NTSB CHI95LA170](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI95LA170.md): Airbus Industrie A-320-211 · St Paul, MN · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Jun 3, 1995 · N326US · Substantial damage
  > the captain's not maintaining crew/group coordination. Factors were the captain's diverted attention and his not maintaining visual separation.
- [NTSB CHI95IA342](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI95IA342.md): Airbus Industrie A320-211 · Minneapolis, MN · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Apr 28, 1995 · N331NW · No damage
  > inadequate design of the fly-by-wire flight control system which allowed false signals from the sidestick transducer units to generate uncommanded rolls.
- [NTSB CHI95IA138](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI95IA138.md): Airbus Industrie A320-211 · Washington, DC · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Apr 27, 1995 · N331NW · No damage
  > the pilot's excessive use of the flight controls during the landing approach, the company's disregard of information provided by the airplane manufacturer, and the company's failure to identify a potentially hazardous conditions based on the information…
- [NTSB CHI93IA125](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI93IA125.md): ATR ATR 72 · Chicago, IL · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Mar 8, 1993 · N248AT · No damage
  > the local controller's failure to issue a proper heading clearance which resulted in a loss of radar separation between two departing airplanes.
- [NTSB DCA90IA048](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA90IA048.md): Airbus Industrie A320-211 · Chicago, IL · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Aug 10, 1990 · N306US · Minor damage
  > The pilot(s) allowed the aircraft to rotate to an excessive nose high attitude, either during a takeoff or 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 ('3930320'))
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?model=3930320

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