# NTSB investigations, CA: Altitude deviation,uncontrolled

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 LAX98FA169](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX98FA169.md): McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 · Los Angeles, CA · Accident · Serious injuries · Field investigation · Final report · May 21, 1998 · N68043 · No damage
  > The contaminated strain gage, which resulted in shorting of the strain gage's terminal lugs which lead to excessive autopilot initiated elevator movement, and excessive elevator actuation during recovery by the captain. Contributing factors were the failure…
- [NTSB LAX87FA087](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX87FA087.md): Cessna 208 · Cima, CA · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Jan 16, 1987 · N9613F · Destroyed
  > While on a day/vfr flt from ontario, CA to las vegas, NV, the acft collided with mountainous terrain near the top of a 6500' peak. Radar data showed that aprx 20 min before the acdnt, the acft began a gradual dscnt from about 10,000'. No preimpact part…
- [NTSB LAX86LA312](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX86LA312.md): Mooney M20F · Cloverdale, CA · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Jul 5, 1986 · N6762V · Substantial damage
  > The acft collided with wires following a loss of control. The plt indicated that he was following a river at 1,500 ft MSL at a slow airspeed when the stall warning sounded. The plt stated that he lowered the nose in a downdraft and recovered close to the…
- [NTSB LAX85LA155](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX85LA155.md): Robinson R-22A · Santa Barbara, CA · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Feb 25, 1985 · N85550 · Destroyed
  > Student plt stated that while flying the last leg of a solo cross country flight he was flying along the coast at 50 to 75 feet, he diverted his attention to look at the a man on the beach and when he looked back at the instruments he noticed the helicopter…
- [NTSB LAX84FA429](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX84FA429.md): Bellanca 7ECA · Julian, CA · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Aug 4, 1984 · N5516K · Destroyed
  > After takeoff several 360 deg climbing turns were made to gain alt to clear the mountain ridge. The ridge was approached at 4800 ft MSL with the plt expecting a thermal lift over the 5500 ft level which had been encountered many times before. At 4800 ft MSL…

## 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."eventStateOrRegion" = 'CA' AND c."eventCountry" = 'USA'
  AND c."mKey" IN (SELECT o.case_mkey FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_occurrences.parquet' o WHERE o."occurrenceNumber" = 1 AND o."occurrenceCode" = 110)
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?occurrence=110&state=CA

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