# NTSB investigations: Whittman Tailwind W-8: 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 CHI05CA107](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI05CA107.md): Whittman Tailwind · Lyndon, KS · Accident · No injuries · Data collection · Final report · Apr 27, 2005 · N74849 · Substantial damage
  > The pilot improper recovery from a bounced landing, and his inadequate compensation for a tailwind, which resulted in a loss of control and subsequent collision with the ground. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's selection of a wrong runway, the…
- [NTSB ATL89DMG04](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL89DMG04.md): Wittman, S.J. W-8 · Washington, NC · Accident · No injuries · Final report · Jul 17, 1989 · N74849 · Substantial damage
  > Pilot inadvertently stalled the airplane.

## 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 ('979022A', '979025U', '9790280', '979028G', '97902YS', '97902Z9', '979020J', '979020Z', '979021E', '9790232', '979023M', '979024Y', '9790265', '979026Q', '9790271', '979028X', '97902KZ')
    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=979022A&occurrence=200

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