# NTSB investigations, 1989: Fire/explosion

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 FTW90FA015](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW90FA015.md): Beech 58 · San Antonio, TX · Accident · No injuries · Field investigation · Final report · Oct 24, 1989 · N950JP · Substantial damage
  > A fuel tank leak, arcing from the exterior lighting system, and failure of company/maintenance personnel to comply with an airworthiness directive (AD).
- [NTSB DCA90MA002](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA90MA002.md): Boeing 727-232 · Salt Lake City, UT · Accident · Minor injuries · Major investigation · Final report · Oct 14, 1989 · N530DA · Destroyed
  > A fire which started in the passenger oxygen system for undetermined reasons. Contributing to the accident was the failure of delta airlines to recognize, attend to and correct repeated leaks in the oxygen system.

## 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") = 1989
  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" = 170)
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?occurrence=170&year=1989

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