# NTSB investigations: Piper PA-32RT-300T: 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 MIA01LA089](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA01LA089.md): Piper PA-32RT-300T · Gulfport, MS · Accident · 1 fatal · Limited investigation · Final report · Mar 3, 2001 · N911PL · Destroyed
  > the pilot's attempted flight into known adverse weather, resulting in an in flight loss of control, exceedance of design limits of the aircraft, and wing separation prior to collision with water.
- [NTSB DEN93FA012](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DEN93FA012.md): Piper PA-32RT-300T · Kersey, CO · Accident · 2 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Nov 20, 1992 · N39683 · Destroyed
  > Inadvertent stall and loss of control due to structural icing. Factors were: icing conditions, and flight into known adverse weather.
- [NTSB CHI92FA280](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI92FA280.md): Piper PA-32RT-300T · Pullman, MI · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Sep 17, 1992 · N39652 · Destroyed
  > The pilot in command's exceeding the design stress limits of the aircraft.
- [NTSB SEA91FA235](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/SEA91FA235.md): Piper PA32RT-300T · Mayfield, UT · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Sep 6, 1991 · N3006J · Destroyed
  > Poor in flight planning/decision. Factors to the accident were: flight into known adverse weather, inadvertent VFR flight into IMC and inadequate clearance.
- [NTSB SEA88FA078](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/SEA88FA078.md): Piper PA-32RT-300T · Port Angeles, WA · Accident · 3 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Apr 16, 1988 · N36815 · Destroyed
  > Drg arr, the flt was handed off to whidbey island apch ctl at whidbey island (nuw) naval air stn (nas). Nuw was 35 mi NE of the destn (fairchild intl arpt/clm), at Port Angeles, which had no operg ctl twr. The plt was given the nuw wx, which was 400 scat,…

## 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 ('7103216')
    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=7103216&occurrence=240

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