# NTSB investigations: Piper PA-28-160: Hard landing

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 SEA88LA193](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/SEA88LA193.md): Piper PA-28-160 · Renton, WA · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Sep 29, 1988 · N5896W · Substantial damage
  > The student pilot was returning from a long solo cross country. The runway was undergoing construction. 2,300 feet remained for landing. Landing needed to be accomplished over barriers. The student pilot had approach flaps set. The tower asked the pilot to…
- [NTSB FTW87LA138](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW87LA138.md): Piper PA-28-160 · Norman, OK · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Jun 9, 1987 · N5552W · Substantial damage
  > While performing a touch and go landing, the aircraft landed hard causing a vibration in the engine area, and some loss of rudder control. The pilot flew by the tower and the tower indicated everything looked ok. On landing roll the nose gear failed causing…
- [NTSB MIA85LA200](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA85LA200.md): Piper PA-28-160 · Daytona Beach, FL · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Jun 26, 1985 · N5744W · Substantial damage
  > The student plt had been practicing touch and go landings. On his third landing, he permitted too steep an apch and the nose gear contacted the rwy prior to the main gear. A porpoising action then developed which was not arrested prior to failure of the nose…

## 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 ('7102806')
    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" = 200))
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?model=7102806&occurrence=200

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