# NTSB investigations: Piper PA-32R-301: 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 NYC07FA226](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/NYC07FA226.md): Piper PA-32R-301 · Whitfield, AL · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Sep 13, 2007 · N109PA · Destroyed
  > The pilot’s intentional flight into known thunderstorms.
- [NTSB NYC04FA092](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/NYC04FA092.md): Piper PA-32R-301 · Harlan, KY · Accident · 6 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Mar 22, 2004 · N8173U · Destroyed
  > The pilot's improper decision to continue VFR flight into IMC conditions and his failure to maintain terrain clearance, which resulted in controlled flight into terrain. Factors were night, snow and a low ceiling.
- [NTSB MIA03FA122](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA03FA122.md): Piper PA-32R-301 · Carthage, MS · Accident · 2 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Jun 12, 2003 · N232HC · Destroyed
  > The failure of the non-instrument rated pilot to following the in-flight weather avoidance assistance instructions offered by the controller and his continued flight into known adverse weather condition (thunderstorm), resulting in overload failure of the…
- [NTSB ATL01FA105](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL01FA105.md): Piper PA-32R-301 · Byhalia, MS · Accident · 2 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Sep 8, 2001 · N8398Z · Destroyed
  > The pilot's improper evaluation of weather conditions which lead to an inflight encounter with turbulent weather resulting in an in flight break up of the airframe, and subsequent uncontrolled descent into terrain. A factor was the pilot's drug impairment.
- [NTSB LAX99FA138](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX99FA138.md): Piper PA-32R-301 · Warner Springs, CA · Accident · 4 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Apr 4, 1999 · N9254Q · Destroyed
  > The pilot disregarded his weather briefing and attempted flight into areas of forecast and reported icing and moderate to severe turbulence. The airplane encountered mountain wave activity resulting in an overload condition and in-flight separation of the…
- [NTSB BFO94FA021](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/BFO94FA021.md): Piper PA32R-301 · Butler, PA · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Nov 28, 1993 · N707JS · Destroyed
  > The pilot's inadvertent flight into IMC conditions and his failure to maintain proper altitude. The weather conditions were a factor.
- [NTSB NYC93FA080](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/NYC93FA080.md): Piper PA-32R-301 · Lapeer, NY · Accident · 3 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Apr 12, 1993 · N292SP · Destroyed
  > The pilot's improper inflight decision to continue flight into known icing conditions. Factors which contributed to the accident were: the pilot's failure to obtain updated weather information prior to departure, the icing conditions, and the degraded…
- [NTSB FTW87FA123](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW87FA123.md): Piper PA-32R-301 · Porter, OK · Accident · 2 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · May 23, 1987 · N81796 · Destroyed
  > Acft was observed in a rt bank when it experienced an inflt breakup. Both wings, vert stab and rudder, and the horz stab and trim tab separated prior to impact. Wx was dark night with scattered to broken cloud cover, but VFR. Although a wx rpt 33 NM northwest…

## 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 ('7103218')
    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=7103218&occurrence=240

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