# NTSB investigations: Raven Industries S-66A: 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 FTW96LA176](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW96LA176.md): Raven S-66A · San Antonio, TX · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Apr 20, 1996 · N2814D · No damage
  > The pilot's inadequate briefing of his passengers. A factor was the high wind.
- [NTSB CHI87LA034](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI87LA034.md): Raven S-66A · Baldwin, WI · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Nov 2, 1986 · N4196N · No damage
  > While landing, the passengers were instructed to stay to the side of the basket and hold on. However, one passenger moved toward the center of the basket and hit a video camera with her leg. During the occurrence, her leg was fractured between the knee and…
- [NTSB NYC85LA024](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/NYC85LA024.md): Raven S-66A · Little Compton, RI · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Sep 30, 1984 · N4272Y · Substantial damage
  > Plt brushed basket against tree tops and bushes to slow the balloons forward speed. Plt pulled deflation port aprx 10 ft AGL over a mown hay field with an 8-10 mph horizontal, 100 fpm vertical speed. Basket bounced and gust of wind caught deflating envelope…
- [NTSB LAX83LA170](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX83LA170.md): Raven AX-9 · Mesa, AZ · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Mar 15, 1983 · N5714B · No damage
  > According to the plt, there was no wind when he began the sight-seeing flt; however, after takeoff, the wind steadily increased to aprx 12 KTS. By this time, the balloon was approaching a large green field, so he elected to land rather than take a chance of…
- [NTSB NYC82DHD14](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/NYC82DHD14.md): Raven S-66A · Washington Town, NJ · Accident · Serious injuries · Final report · Jun 20, 1982 · N57023 · Minor damage
  > The pilot reported that moments after initial ground contact (during landing), a passenger reported that he thought his leg had fractured. The passenger reported that the fracture occurred after initial impact, when another passenger leaned or stepped on his…

## 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 ('7480612')
    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=7480612&occurrence=200

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