# NTSB investigations: Piper PA-28-151: 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 LAX05FA255](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX05FA255.md): Piper PA-28-151 · San Luis Obispo, CA · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Aug 2, 2005 · N4401X · Destroyed
  > The pilot's continued flight into instrument meteorological conditions, and his failure to maintain clearance from the rising hilly terrain. Contributing factors were the pilot's inexperience regarding flying during the dark, nighttime condition, and the low…
- [NTSB CHI96FA029](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI96FA029.md): Piper PA-28-151 · Fond Du Lac, WI · Accident · 2 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Nov 11, 1995 · N161FS · Destroyed
  > the pilot's intentional VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions, and his failure to maintain altitude. Factors included the weather obscuration due to snow and fog, the dark night, and the pilot's lack of recent night flight time.
- [NTSB ATL92FA185](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL92FA185.md): Piper PA-28-151 · Samantha, AL · Accident · 3 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Sep 23, 1992 · N43313 · Destroyed
  > The pilot's inadequate preflight planning and preparation, his lack of expereince, which resulted in an encounter with instrument weather conditions during an attempted visual flight, and his subsequent spatial disorientation. Factors were the dark night…
- [NTSB ATL91FA124](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL91FA124.md): Piper PA-28 · Mt. Berry, GA · Accident · 2 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Jun 25, 1991 · N91SM · Destroyed
  > The pilot's inadequate preflight planning, his poor inflight decision to continue into deteriorating weather conditions, and his inadvertent flight into IMC. Factors in this accident were: the clouds obscuring the mountain at the time of the accident, and the…
- [NTSB SEA86FA035](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/SEA86FA035.md): Piper PA28-151 · Kelso, WA · Accident · 2 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Jan 5, 1986 · N43552 · Destroyed
  > Enroute to dest. Plt diverted to nearby airfield due deteriorating weather. One hr later, telephone weather brief for continued flt to dest was VFR not recommended. Less than 2 hrs. Later, with no further brief, acft departed. A following acft revsd course…
- [NTSB LAX86FA042](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX86FA042.md): Piper PA 28-151 · Lebec, CA · Accident · 2 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Nov 18, 1985 · N43602 · Destroyed
  > After receiving a preflight wx briefing that forecast strong headwinds, over mountainous terrain, severe turbulence and pireps of severe turbulence on the proposed flt route. The instructor plt and his student instrument plt took off for a night IFR training…
- [NTSB LAX86FA007](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX86FA007.md): Piper PA-28-151 · Payson, AZ · Accident · 2 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Oct 8, 1985 · N44207 · Destroyed
  > The passenger had a 10:00 medical appointment at the destination arot on the day of the accident. The non-instrument rated, recently certificated pvt plt, requested and received a weather briefing for a proposed VFR flt at 7500 ft MSL from mesa to holbrook,…
- [NTSB LAX83FA253](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX83FA253.md): Piper PA-28-151 · Norco, CA · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · May 27, 1983 · N54363 · Destroyed
  > The student plt had flown to the riverton arpt to attend a ground school. Reportedly, prior to his departure at aprx 2235 PDT, stars were visible overhead, but the horizontal visibility was poor & there was a haze layer at about 500 ft AGL. At aprx 2250, a…
- [NTSB LAX82FVM09](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX82FVM09.md): Piper 28-151 · Los Gatos, CA · Accident · 1 fatal · Final report · Jan 29, 1982 · N32678 · Destroyed
  > The pilot prepared to depart on a scheduled courier run in a Piper PA-32, but was unable to start the engine. After consulting with company personnel, he rented a Piper PA-28-151, transferred the cargo and departed monterey, CA on a flight to oakland, CA.…

## 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 ('7102805', '7104223')
    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=7102805&occurrence=240

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