# NTSB investigations: S N I A S AS350D ASTAR, 1983

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 SEA84IA008](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/SEA84IA008.md): S.N.I.A.S. AS350D · Seattle, WA · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Oct 11, 1983 · N350GT · No damage
  > The acft sustained a complete failure of the tail rotor drine shaft due to fatigue from stress corrosion precipitated byprevious damage at which time no logbook entry was recorded to indicate that the shaft had been inspected.
- [NTSB ANC83FA122](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC83FA122.md): Aerospatiale AS-350D · Dutch Harbor, AK · Accident · Serious injuries · Field investigation · Final report · Jul 12, 1983 · N141EH · Destroyed
  > Aprx 2 min after takeoff, the plt & passengers heard a loud muffled boom from behind the firewall, then the rotor RPM began to decay. The plt entered an autorotation & selected a landing area. He noted that the eng was not driving the rotor sys, so he shut it…
- [NTSB FTW83FA238](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW83FA238.md): Aerospatiale AS-350D · Venice, LA · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · May 18, 1983 · N36062 · Destroyed
  > The acft crashed into a swamp with low rotor RPM after a failure of the accessory gearbox power output gear. The pilot radioed an emergency call saying he was experiencing severe vibrations and was landing. A few seconds later, he radioed that he was…

## 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 year(c."eventDate") = 1983
  AND c."mKey" IN (SELECT x.case_mkey FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_aircrafts.parquet' x WHERE x.aircraft_model_code IN ('8680803'))
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?model=8680803&year=1983

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