# NTSB investigations, 1985: Near collision between aircraft

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 MIA85IA208](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA85IA208.md): Cessna 402 · West Palm Bch, FL · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Jul 5, 1985 · N68368 · 2 aircraft · No damage
  > A Learjet 35 was cleared on to runway 09L and hold, the Learjet crew confirmed with the air traffic control tower personnel that te transmission was intended for them and taxied into position and held. Personnel on duty in the control tower then cleared a…
- [NTSB CHI85FA249](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI85FA249.md): Boeing 727 · South Haven, MI · Accident · Serious injuries · Field investigation · Final report · Jun 23, 1985 · N1965 · 2 aircraft · No damage
  > While en route on an IFR flt plan (1st officer at ctls), American flt 803 (a Boeing 727, N1965) bgn a dscnt fm FL 190 TO9000'. The seat belt sign was turned on at 18,000'. While dscndg btn cld layers, at aprx 13,000 to 12,000', the capt sawa Cessna 421C,…
- [NTSB LAX85IA175](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX85IA175.md): Piper PA-44-180 · San Jose, CA · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Mar 16, 1985 · N2138G · 2 aircraft · No damage
  > A Piper seminule was vectored to the final apch course & cleared for an ILS apch at 3000FT MSL. A DC-9, in trail at 5000FT MSL, was overtaking the seminule. The controller elected to change their sequence & cleared the seminule to climb to 4000FT MSL due to…

## 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") = 1985
  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" = 280)
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?occurrence=280&year=1985

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