# NTSB investigations: North American NAVION: 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 MIA07FA154](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA07FA154.md): North American Navion · Clayton, NC · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Sep 21, 2007 · N8844H · Destroyed
  > The pilot's intentional abrupt maneuver during low altitude cruise flight to avoid obstructions ahead, resulting in an in-flight collision with terrain and a building. Contributing to the accident were the failure of the pilot to obtain a preflight weather…
- [NTSB CHI07FA182](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI07FA182.md): North American Navion · Colona, IL · Accident · 2 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Jun 25, 2007 · N8804H · Destroyed
  > The non-instrument rated pilot's continued flight into instrument meteorological conditions.
- [NTSB LAX01FA112](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX01FA112.md): North American Navion · Santa Ysabel, CA · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Mar 9, 2001 · N91445 · Destroyed
  > the pilot's continued VFR flight into IFR conditions, which resulted in a loss of control due to spatial disorientation.
- [NTSB LAX98FA264](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX98FA264.md): North American Navion · Salinas, CA · Accident · 2 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Aug 15, 1998 · N8820H · Destroyed
  > the pilot's attempt to continue visual flight operations into an area of known instrument meteorological conditions resulting in controlled flight into rising terrain.
- [NTSB DEN87LA079](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DEN87LA079.md): North American Navion · Los Alamos, NM · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Apr 3, 1987 · N91735 · Substantial damage
  > The instructor plt was giving cross wind instruction to a pre-solo student plt. During a cross wind landing attempt, the acft touched down hard, breaking off the right main landing gear. The winds were observed at the time of touchdown to be 150 degrees at 12…

## 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 ('6150130', '6150137')
    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=6150130&occurrence=240

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