# NTSB investigations, VA: Nose over

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 IAD01LA014](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/IAD01LA014.md): Gick Aerocomp CA6WB · White Post, VA · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Nov 18, 2000 · N8181L · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's inadequate preflight. Also causal in the accident was the under-inflated tire that flattened and locked during landing, and collapsed the nose landing gear.
- [NTSB NYC01LA011](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/NYC01LA011.md): Boeing B75-N1 · Warrenton, VA · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Oct 7, 2000 · N1066M · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing.
- [NTSB NYC98LA054](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/NYC98LA054.md): Mayers SEA REY · Gloucester, VA · Accident · Minor injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Dec 26, 1997 · N100RZ · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during landing, which resulted in a nose over.
- [NTSB BFO87FA003](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/BFO87FA003.md): Bellanca 8GCBC · Keysville, VA · Accident · Minor injuries · Field investigation · Final report · Oct 8, 1986 · N7100C · Substantial damage
  > The pilot made a tailwheel high touchdown on the 1850 foot grass strip. Shortly after touchdown, the nose dropped and, although the pilot said he moved the control stick fully aft, the propeller struck the ground, and the aircraft flipped inverted.
- [NTSB ATL84LA269](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL84LA269.md): Bellanca 7GCBC · Virginia Beach, VA · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Aug 25, 1984 · N53957 · Substantial damage
  > On landing roll plt diverted aircraft to right to avoid a truck which had pulled onto the runway. This placed the aircraft in line with banner towing equipment. The plt applied the brakes while the tail wheel was still off the ground in attempts to stop prior…
- [NTSB ATL84LA210](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL84LA210.md): Johnson Skyote · Portsmouth, VA · Accident · Minor injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Jun 8, 1984 · N64SK · Substantial damage
  > The acft was a recently manufactured, home built plane that was equipped with brakes that were designed for a much larger (Piper PA-23) acft. The plt stated that the brakes were too sensitive for his acft, a skyote. Also, he equipped it with a high quality…
- [NTSB ATL83LA124](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL83LA124.md): Piper PA-18 · Front Royal, VA · Accident · Minor injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Feb 19, 1983 · N40552 · Substantial damage
  > The acft nosed over during landing. There were no mechanical malfunctions. The pilot said that as he landed, the acft skipped. He said the acft was relanded but the tail came up. The tail was lowered, came up again and with back pressure on the control stick…

## 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" = 'VA' 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" = 300)
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?occurrence=300&state=VA

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