# NTSB investigations, 2000: Vortex turbulence encountered

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 NYC01IA024](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/NYC01IA024.md): Bombardier CL-600 · Falmouth, KY · Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report · Oct 26, 2000 · N958CA · No damage
  > The wake turbulence of another heavy airplane.
- [NTSB NYC01LA025](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/NYC01LA025.md): Cessna 172M · Camp Springs, MD · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Oct 19, 2000 · N950ME · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's improper in-flight decision to operate close behind a large airplane at the same altitude, which resulted in a wake turbulence encounter.
- [NTSB SEA00LA156](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/SEA00LA156.md): Cessna 152 · Hillsboro, OR · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Aug 10, 2000 · N6434H · Substantial damage
  > An inadequately planned approach. The encounter of wake turbulence and not being able to maintain aircraft control were factors.
- [NTSB SEA00LA067](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/SEA00LA067.md): Cessna 172P · Seattle, WA · Accident · Minor injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Apr 11, 2000 · N38GF · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's failure to attain proper alignment with the landing runway, and her failure to maintain proper glide path for the landing runway, resulting in an encounter with vortex turbulence from a preceding heavy aircraft landing on a parallel runway and…
- [NTSB ATL00FA026](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL00FA026.md): Piper PA-28-161 · Chamblee, GA · Accident · 1 fatal · Field investigation · Final report · Feb 15, 2000 · N8447Y · Substantial damage
  > The S76 helicopter pilot's failure to follow ATC landing sequence clearance, which resulted in the PA-28's encounter with the helicopters wake turbulence. A factor was the air traffic controllers clearance procedure.

## 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") = 2000
  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" = 410)
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?occurrence=410&year=2000

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