# NTSB investigations: Partenavia P.68C

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 ERA09FA039](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA09FA039.md): Partenavia P.68C · Gainesville, FL · Accident · 3 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Nov 7, 2008 · N681KW · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's failure to maintain the proper glidepath during an instrument-landing-system (ILS) approach. Contributing to the accident were the pilot's decision to initiate the ILS approach with weather below the published minimums, and the pilot's…
- [NTSB MIA07FA042](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA07FA042.md): Partenavia P 68C · Adjuntas, PR · Accident · 2 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Jan 15, 2007 · N90KB · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's failure to maintain altitude/clearance with mountainous terrain for undetermined reasons during a normal descent under instrument meteorological and dark night conditions.
- [NTSB MIA88FA260](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA88FA260.md): Partenavia P-68C · Duncan Town, Bahamas · Accident · 6 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Aug 19, 1988 · N39272 · Destroyed
  > The acft crashed in the ocean nr Duncan Town, Bahamas. The wx according to witnesses was VMC. The flt had been airborne enroute from nassau for about 1 hr and 20 minutes. Witnesses on a nearby boat said the acft was flying in a slight left bank when the left…
- [NTSB FTW87FA213](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW87FA213.md): Partenavia P68C · New Orleans, LA · Accident · Serious injuries · Field investigation · Final report · Sep 11, 1987 · N1352W · Destroyed
  > The plt began an ILS rwy 18R apch at ngt to the lakefront arpt. He rprtd that after the acft broke out of the clouds at 1700', he transitioned to a visual apch. He stated that as he contd, the apch seemed normal, except the VASI lights seemed too FAR down the…
- [NTSB FTW85LA198](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW85LA198.md): Partenavia P68C · Tilden, TX · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Apr 25, 1985 · N76L · Destroyed
  > After aprx 1.5 hrs of pipeline patrol flight at a planned altitude of 500 AGL the acft flew into the flat terrain in a landing attitude. The acft went through a wire fence, heavy brush and small trees before coming to rest 437 ft from initial ground contact…
- [NTSB FTW83FA424](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW83FA424.md): Partenavia P68C · Plainview, TX · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Sep 11, 1983 · N29561 · Destroyed
  > The plt was executing a high speed pass over the rwy at about 250 ft AGL. The plt then began a rapid pull-up & both wings separated just outboard of the eng nacelles. Reconstruction of the sequence from a videotape revealed that the acft's speed at the time…

## 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 ('6780105'))
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?model=6780105

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