Research
The whole record, reshaped by a question.
Every count below is the Board's own coding across the cases in scope — findings, occurrences, phases, recommendations, the evidence held. Click any bar to make it the filter. No fleet-exposure data exists here, so these are cases, never rates.
AircraftAllBoeing / McDonnell DouglasAirbusEmbraerBombardier / De HavillandBellSikorskyRobinsonCessnaPiperBeechcraft
OccurrenceAllTurbulence encounterCollision with terr/obj (non-CFIT) Loss of control in flightGround collisionFire/smoke (non-impact)Cabin safety eventPowerplant sys/comp malf/failSys/Comp malf/fail (non-power)TailstrikeControlled flight into terr/obj (CFIT)Air traffic eventRunway excursion
Showing 83 cases · 2002–2002
83
cases in this slice
18
fatal accidents
35
lives lost
77
with a probable cause
0
with coded findings
20
safety recommendations
The record over time
cases per year by cohort, and the lives lost — click a year to focus on itCases per year
Major investigationPart 121 airlinePart 135 fatal
Fatalities per year
Fatalities
Why accidents happen
0 coded casesthe Board's findings taxonomy — causal findings in the probable cause, contributing factors beside them; occurrences and the phase of flight the defining event sat inNo coded findings in this slice — the NTSB’s coded taxonomy begins with 2008 cases.
Aircraft and operators
by manufacturer family and operating rule — counts of cases, with no fleet-size denominator, so a busy family simply flies moreAircraft family
- Bombardier / De Havilland · 2 fatal12
- Cessna · 7 fatal7
- Other · 1 fatal7
- Airbus · 1 fatal6
- Piper · 4 fatal4
- Saab3
- Beechcraft · 1 fatal2
- Bell · 2 fatal2
Operators with the most cases
- Northwest Airlines5
- Atlantic Coast Airlines4
- Federal Express4
- Delta Air Lines3
- American Airlines2
- Comair2
- Air Taxi · 1 lives1
- Air Transport · 1 lives1
- Alaska Airlines1
- Allegheny Airlines1
- America West Airlines1
- American Air Network · 1 lives1
What changed because of them
20 recommendations · 1 opensafety recommendations issued from these cases, by the NTSB's status of the response- Closed · acceptable 12
- Closed · unacceptable 7
- Open · unacceptable response 1
Issued per year
Recommendations
Reiterated most often
- A-03-015reiterated ×1Closed - Acceptable Action
TO THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION: Require that all Embraer 145, Embraer 135, Canadair CL-600 RJ, Canadair Challenger CL-600, and Fairchild Dornier 328-300 airplanes be modified with a digital flight data recorder …
- A-03-016reiterated ×1Closed - Acceptable Action
TO THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION: Survey all aircraft required by Federal regulation to have a flight data recorder to ensure that the data recorded meets the rate, range, and accuracy requirements specified in 14…
- A-03-065reiterated ×1Closed - Unacceptable Action/Superseded
TO THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION: Require all turbine-powered, nonexperimental, nonrestricted-category aircraft, that are manufactured prior to January 1, 2007, that are not equipped with a flight data recorder, a…
- A-03-052reiterated ×1Closed - Acceptable Action
TO THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION: Require that 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 135 on-demand charter operators that conduct dual-pilot operations establish and implement a Federal Aviation Administratio…
- A-03-053reiterated ×1Closed - Unacceptable Action/Superseded
TO THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION: Convene a panel of aircraft design, aviation operations, and aviation human factors specialists, including representatives from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, …
- A-03-054reiterated ×1Closed - Unacceptable Action/Superseded
TO THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION: If the panel requested in Safety Recommendation A-03-53 determines that a requirement for the installation of low-airspeed alert systems in airplanes engaged in commercial operati…
Evidence held
what the corpus can show for this slice, year by year — a docket, decoded flight data, a transcript, photographs, controller audioWhat the record says for this slice
a pattern, not a findingthe causal findings the Board cited most often across the 0 coded cases hereNo coded findings in this slice.
The cases
83 of 83newest first — open any case for its recorders, transcript, photographs and analyst| Date | Case | Aircraft | Operator | Where | Outcome | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-12-18 | CHI03FA041 Part 135 fatal | Cessna 208B | Planemasters | Rockford, IL | Fatal · 1 | 59 docs |
| 2002-12-04 | FTW03FA057 Part 135 fatal | Cessna 210L | Harrison, AR | Fatal · 1 | 18 docs | |
| 2002-12-04 | FTW03FA055 Part 135 fatal | Cessna 421C | Air Transport Inc. | Tajique, NM | Fatal · 1 | no docket |
| 2002-11-29 | CHI03LA031 Part 121 airline | Airbus Industrie A320-211 | Minneapolis, MN | Serious injury | no docket | |
| 2002-11-21 | CHI03IA027 Part 121 airline | Airbus Industrie A319-131 | United Air LInes | Chicago, IL | No injury | no docket |
| 2002-11-17 | NYC03IA027 Part 121 airline | Canadair CL-600-2B19 | Delta Connection | Rockville, VA | No injury | no docket |
| 2002-11-09 | NYC03LA016 Part 121 airline | McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | AMERICAN AIRLINES INC | Flushing, NY | Serious injury | no docket |
| 2002-11-06 | ATL03LA014 Part 121 airline | McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | Orlando, FL | Serious injury | no docket | |
| 2002-10-25 | CHI03FA014 Part 121 airline | Bombardier CL-600-2B19 | United Express | Chicago, IL | Minor injury | no docket |
| 2002-10-25 | DCA03MA008 Major investigation | Beech King Air 100 | Aviation Charter Inc. | Eveleth, MN | Fatal · 8 | 175 docs |
| 2002-10-24 | ATL03FA008 Part 135 fatal | Cessna 208B | Mid Atlantic Freight Inc. | Spanish Fort, AL | Fatal · 1 | no docket |
| 2002-10-19 | IAD03IA007 Part 121 airline | Boeing 767-222 | BOSTON, MA | No injury | no docket | |
| 2002-10-15 | NYC03LA004 Part 121 airline | de Havilland DHC-8-102 | Allegheny Airlines | Albany, NY | No injury | no docket |
| 2002-10-10 | ANC03IA001 Part 121 airline | Boeing 747-400 | NORTHWEST AIRLINES INC | Anchorage, AK | No injury | 9 docs · FDR tables |
| 2002-09-22 | CHI02FA289 Part 121 airline | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 | Minneapolis, MN | No injury | no docket | |
| 2002-09-13 | MIA02IA167 Part 121 airline | Boeing 737-823 | Miami, FL | No injury | no docket | |
| 2002-09-10 | CHI02FA288 Part 135 fatal | Bell 206L-1 | Doland, SD | Fatal · 4 | 35 docs | |
| 2002-09-10 | NYC02LA187 Part 121 airline | Boeing 757-251 | Northwest Airlines | Baltimore, MD | No injury | no docket |
| 2002-09-05 | CHI02IA270 Part 121 airline | Fokker 100 | Minneapolis, MN | No injury | no docket | |
| 2002-09-04 | CHI02IA275 Part 121 airline | Saab-Scania AB (Saab) 340A | Detroit, MI | No injury | no docket | |
| 2002-08-30 | NYC02FA177 Part 135 fatal | Gates Learjet 25C | American Air Network, Inc. | Lexington, KY | Fatal · 1 | no docket |
| 2002-08-29 | ATL02IA165 Part 121 airline | Beech 1900D | Continental Connection | Tampa, FL | No injury | no docket |
| 2002-08-29 | LAX02FA266 Part 121 airline | Airbus Industrie A320-231 | AMERICA WEST AIRLINES | Phoenix, AZ | Serious injury | no docket |
| 2002-08-28 | ANC02FA107 Part 135 fatal | CESSNA A185F | C-AIR | KODIAK, AK | Fatal · 2 | no docket |
| 2002-08-25 | MIA02WA176 Part 121 airline | Boeing 767-332ER | Delta Air Lines | Buenos Aires | No injury | no docket · open |
| 2002-08-10 | ATL02IA155 Part 121 airline | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 | FedEx | Tampa, FL | No injury | 15 docs · FDR tables |
| 2002-07-28 | IAD02IA076 Part 121 airline | Fairchild Dornier DO-328-300 | ATLANTIC COAST AIRLINES | NEW YORK, NY | No injury | 5 docs · FDR tables |
| 2002-07-26 | DCA02MA054 Major investigation | Boeing 727-232 | Tallahassee, FL | Serious injury | 184 docs · recorder reports | |
| 2002-07-21 | NYC02LA146 Part 121 airline | Saab-Scania AB (Saab) 340A | Mesaba Aviation Inc. | Charleston, WV | No injury | 2 docs |
| 2002-07-18 | CHI02FA197 Part 135 fatal | Piper PA-60 | Columbus, IN | Fatal · 1 | 52 docs | |
| 2002-07-16 | MIA02LA134 Part 121 airline | Saab-Scania AB (Saab) SF340B | Mesaba Airlines | Tupelo, MS | Serious injury | 4 docs |
| 2002-07-13 | ANC02LA079 Part 121 airline | de Havilland DHC-6 | Toksook Bay, AK | No injury | 2 docs | |
| 2002-07-12 | ANC02FA075 Part 135 fatal | de Havilland DHC-2 | MINTA INC | Port Alsworth, AK | Fatal · 4 | 12 docs |
| 2002-07-02 | NYC02WA135 Part 121 airline | Boeing 767-300 | AMR CORPORATION | Asuncion | No injury | no docket · open |
| 2002-07-02 | FTW02LA199 Part 121 airline | McDonnell Douglas MD-88 | Delta Airlines | HOUSTON, TX | No injury | 20 docs |
| 2002-06-17 | NYC02IA117 Part 121 airline | Dornier 328 | US Airways Express | Washington, DC | Minor injury | 1 docs |
| 2002-06-17 | CHI02LA170 Part 121 airline | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82 | Vanguard Airlines Inc. | Kansas City, MO | No injury | 9 docs · FDR tables |
| 2002-06-11 | FTW02LA198 Part 121 airline | Airbus Industrie A300-600F | El Paso, TX | No injury | 16 docs · FDR tables | |
| 2002-06-06 | IAD02IA057 Part 121 airline | Fairchild Dornier DO-328-300 | ATLANTIC COAST AIRLINES | Cinncinnati, OH | No injury | 6 docs · FDR tables |
| 2002-06-04 | CHI02IA151 Part 121 airline | McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | Wichita, KS | No injury | 15 docs · recorder reports | |
| 2002-06-04 | CHI02FA148 Part 121 airline | Douglas DC-9-31 | Minneapolis, MN | No injury | 18 docs · FDR tables | |
| 2002-06-03 | ATL02FA113 Part 121 airline | Bombardier CL600-2B19 | Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | No injury | 44 docs · recorder reports |
| 2002-06-03 | DCA02MA039 Major investigation | McDonnell Douglas MD-11 | FEDERAL EXPRESS CORP | Subic Bay | No injury | 15 docs · FDR tables |
| 2002-06-02 | DCA02MA042 Major investigation | McDonnell Douglas MD-11F | FEDERAL EXPRESS CORP | Subic Bay | No injury | 14 docs · FDR tables |
| 2002-06-02 | NYC02LA110 Part 121 airline | Boeing 757-232 | Fairfield, IL | Serious injury | 2 docs | |
| 2002-05-31 | ATL02WA116 Part 135 fatal | Aero Commander 500-B | Bevins Air Services Inc. | Roseau | Fatal · 2 | no docket · open |
| 2002-05-31 | SEA02IA092 Part 121 airline | McDonnell Douglas MD-11F | Federal Express Corp. | SEATAC, WA | No injury | 6 docs |
| 2002-05-29 | ATL02LA111 Part 121 airline | Boeing 757-200 | DELTA AIR LINES INC | Atlanta, GA | Serious injury | 4 docs |
| 2002-05-22 | NYC02IA100 Part 121 airline | Dornier 328-300 | Atlantic Coast Airlines | Albany, NY | No injury | 6 docs · FDR tables |
| 2002-05-11 | CHI02LA128 Part 121 airline | Boeing 757-33N | American Trans Air | Chicago, IL | No injury | 4 docs |
| 2002-05-08 | NYC02IA097 Part 121 airline | Bombardier CL600-2B19 | Covington, KY | No injury | 11 docs | |
| 2002-05-08 | MIA02IA094 Part 121 airline | Boeing B737-448 | RYAN AIR INC | Miami, FL | No injury | 11 docs · recorder reports |
| 2002-05-02 | IAD02IA046 Part 121 airline | Fairchild Dornier DO-328-300 | ATLANTIC COAST AIRLINES (ACA) | ATLANTIC CITY, NJ | No injury | 17 docs · FDR tables |
| 2002-05-01 | LAX02LA146 Part 121 airline | Boeing 747-422 | Pacific Ocean, PO | Serious injury | 5 docs | |
| 2002-04-27 | WAS02RA037 Part 121 airline | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40F | Centurion Air Cargo, Inc. | San Salvador | No injury | no docket · open |
| 2002-04-22 | NYC02LA088 Part 121 airline | Boeing 767-224 | Atlantic Ocean | Serious injury | 5 docs · recorder reports | |
| 2002-04-18 | CHI02LA111 Part 121 airline | Boeing 757-200 | Springfield, MO | Serious injury | 29 docs · FDR tables | |
| 2002-04-15 | LAX02LA138 Part 121 airline | Airbus Industrie A319-114 | Northwest Airlines, Inc. | Reno, NV | Serious injury | 5 docs · recorder reports |
| 2002-04-05 | ATL02LA075 Part 121 airline | Boeing 767-332ER | Atlanta, GA | No injury | 9 docs | |
| 2002-04-01 | MIA02FA075 Part 121 airline | McDonnell Douglas MD-11 | Charlotte, NC | Serious injury | 25 docs · FDR tables | |
| 2002-03-27 | NYC02IA076 Part 121 airline | Embraer EMB-145LR | Chautauqua Airlines Inc. | Jefferson, NY | No injury | 3 docs |
| 2002-03-22 | DCA02MA029 Major investigation | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 | Northwest Airlines | int'l waters | Serious injury | 18 docs · FDR tables |
| 2002-03-17 | ANC02FA023 Part 121 airline | McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | ALASKA AIRLINES, INC. | Anchorage, AK | No injury | no docket |
| 2002-03-15 | CHI02FA093 Part 135 fatal | Cessna 208B | Priority Air Charter | Alma, WI | Fatal · 1 | 23 docs |
| 2002-03-14 | FTW02IA097 Part 121 airline | Canadair CL-600-2B19 | COMAIR INC | Tulsa, OK | No injury | 9 docs |
| 2002-03-14 | MIA02FA067 Part 135 fatal | Piper PA32R-300 | RAM AIR FREIGHT INC | Broadway, NC | Fatal · 1 | 21 docs |
| 2002-03-09 | ATL02FA062 Part 135 fatal | Eurocopter France AS355 F1 | Sk Logistics, Inc. | Savannah, GA | Fatal · 2 | 27 docs |
| 2002-03-09 | DCA02MA026 Major investigation | Canadair CL-600-2B19 | ATLANTIC COAST AIRLINES | Dulles Airport, VA | No injury | 12 docs |
| 2002-03-06 | FTW02LA088 Part 121 airline | Fokker F-28 MK-100 | American Airlines | Dallas, TX | No injury | 4 docs |
| 2002-03-02 | SEA02LA049 Part 121 airline | Boeing 757-200 | Seattle, WA | No injury | 2 docs | |
| 2002-03-02 | SEA02IA044 Part 121 airline | Bombardier DHC-8-401 | Horizon Airlines | Boise, ID | No injury | 2 docs |
| 2002-02-27 | CHI02IA083 Part 121 airline | Canadair CL-600-2B19 | Comair, Inc. | Appleton, WI | No injury | 12 docs · FDR tables |
| 2002-02-20 | NYC02LA065 Part 121 airline | Boeing 737-724 | Beaumont, TX | Serious injury | 7 docs | |
| 2002-02-16 | MIA02WA063 Part 121 airline | Grumman G-73T | FLYING BOAT INC | Paradise Island | No injury | no docket · open |
| 2002-02-16 | ATL02FA048 Part 135 fatal | Bell 206L-1 | New Smyrna Bch., FL | Fatal · 2 | 19 docs | |
| 2002-02-14 | ANC02LA015 Part 121 airline | Boeing 727-100 | Northern Air Cargo Inc. | Kotzebue, AK | No injury | 2 docs |
| 2002-02-04 | ANC02FA014 Part 135 fatal | Cessna 206 | Flight Alaska, Inc. | Bethel, AK | Fatal · 1 | 17 docs |
| 2002-02-03 | DCA02WA022 Part 121 airline | Boeing MD-11 | DELTA AIR LINES INC | Dublin | No injury | no docket · open |
| 2002-01-24 | CHI02LA069 Part 121 airline | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-41 | Northwest Airlines | Indianapolis, IN | Serious injury | 6 docs |
| 2002-01-20 | NYC02LA056 Part 121 airline | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 | Dulles, VA | No injury | 8 docs | |
| 2002-01-15 | ANC02FA010 Part 135 fatal | Piper PA-32 | HAINES, AK | Fatal · 1 | 23 docs | |
| 2002-01-03 | ATL02LA029 Part 121 airline | Boeing 727-200 | Federal Express | Greenville, SC | No injury | 2 docs |
| 2002-01-01 | MIA02FA048 Part 135 fatal | Piper PA-31-350 | Air Taxi Inc. | Hollywood, FL | Fatal · 1 | 18 docs |