# NTSB investigations: Mitsubishi MU-2B-35: 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 DEN06MA119](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DEN06MA119.md): Mitsubishi MU-2B-35 · Argyle, FL · Accident · 1 fatal · Major investigation · Final report · Sep 1, 2006 · N6569L · Destroyed
  > the pilot's inadvertent flight into thunderstorm activity that resulted in the loss of control, design limits of the airplane being exceeded and subsequent in-flight breakup. A contributing factor was the failure of air traffic control to use available radar…
- [NTSB MIA02FA084](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA02FA084.md): Mitsubishi MU-2B-35 · Carolina, PR · Accident · 2 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Apr 15, 2002 · N45BS · Destroyed
  > The failure of the pilot to maintain airspeed (Vs) while maneuvering following inadvertent encounter with clouds resulting in an inadvertent stall and uncontrolled descent and subsequent in-flight collision with trees, a wall, and a building.
- [NTSB FTW85LA183](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW85LA183.md): Mitsubishi MU2J · Patterson, LA · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Apr 15, 1985 · N808W · Substantial damage
  > On visual final apch to the arpt at night the acft entered ground fog. Reflection of the landing lights in the fog was distracting. The acft landed in the adjacent seaplane landing area instead of on the hard surface rwy. A subsequent inspection of the aprt…

## 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 ('5780411')
    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=5780411&occurrence=240

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