# NTSB investigations: Aerospatiale SA319B ALOUETTE III

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 ANC06LA137](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC06LA137.md): Aerospatiale SA319B · Port Alsworth, AK · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Sep 24, 2006 · N119PH · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's failure to adequately secure the external load rigging of an airplane that was suspended from the helicopter, which resulted in a load shift during cruise flight, producing an abrupt nose-down attitude, and the severing of the tailrotor drive…
- [NTSB SEA06TA028](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/SEA06TA028.md): Aerospatiale SA-319B · Escalante, UT · Accident · Serious injuries · Final report · Dec 14, 2005 · N3194K · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's inadequate remedial action when ground resonance was encountered during landing. Contributing factors were the rough/uneven terrain and company inadequate maintenance.
- [NTSB ANC03LA098](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC03LA098.md): Aerospatiale SA319B · Whittier, AK · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Aug 21, 2003 · N319LF · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's encounter with ground resonance during landing, which resulted in an aborted landing and subsequent loss of control of the helicopter.
- [NTSB ANC03LA042](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC03LA042.md): Aerospatiale SA-319B · Valdez, AK · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Apr 7, 2003 · N119PH · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's encounter with a ground resonance condition during the landing touchdown, which resulted in the shearing of a main rotor spacing cable bolt, and buckling of the tail boom.
- [NTSB MIA02TA082](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA02TA082.md): Aerospatiale SA319B Alouette III · Altoona, FL · Accident · Serious injuries · Final report · Apr 9, 2002 · N2UH · Substantial damage
  > The intentional operation of the helicopter with known deficiencies in equipment (inoperative normal brakes), and the pilot's improper use of the cyclic flight controls after the helicopter started rolling following touchdown.

## 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 ('8680607'))
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?model=8680607

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