19791004043669A

Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Hughes 369HS · Mount Crawford, VA · October 4, 1979

Date
October 4, 1979 · 15:50 local
Place
Mount Crawford, VA
Airport
Weyers Cave
Phase of flight
Low Level Operations
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N9076F
NTSB investigation
NTSBIAD80FA003
Reported as
Hughes 369HS
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
2
Pilot’s flight hours
2,997 total31 in this make and model31 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Witness observed low flying helicopter then parts flew off same, then crashed. No mechanical defects.

As the FAA filed it

WITNESS OBSERVED LOW FLYING HELICOPTER THEN PARTS FLEW OFF SAME, THEN CRASHED. NO MECHANICAL DEFECTS.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.