# Accident 20060105003109A: Urocop EC130B4, Honokohau, HI, January 5, 2006

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 5, 2006, 09:45 local time
- Place: Honokohau, HI
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Pwr Off Vert Land/Autorotate
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: HCMA
- Location: 20.9572° N, 156.5869° W: From the FAA
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=20.9572&lon=-156.5869&mi=10
- Aircraft: N11QD, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N11QD) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Eurocopter EC 130 (registry code 8680988, https://openairdocs.org/model/eurocopter-ec-130) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Turbomeca ARRIEL-1B (registry code 60042, https://openairdocs.org/engine/turbomeca-arriel-1b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: UROCOP EC130B4
- Reported engine: TMECA ARRIEL1B
- People aboard: 4
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,600 total, 1,001 in this make and model, 193 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB LAX06FA080](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX06FA080) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20060105003109A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) AIRCRAFT DEPARTED OUT OF KAHULUI AIRPORT ON TOUR FLIGHT OF 60 MINUTES. OPERATIONS WERE NORMAL IN WAIHEE VALLEY. AS AIRCRAFT BEGAN DESCENT INTO HONOKOHAU VALLEY, PILOT NOTICED AIRCRAFT APPEARED TO LOSE POWER AND WARNING HORN SOUNDED. PILOT SELECTED LANDING AREA. PILOT TURNED AIRCRAFT INTO THE WIND AND CHANGED LANDING AREA. PILOT ATTEMPTED TO PULL IN COLLECTIVE AND CHECK POWER AVAILABLE, BUT ROTOR BEGAN TO DROOP, AND PILOT RETURNED TO AUTOROTATIVE MODE. AIRCRAFT LANDED IN AN AREA WITH TREES, AND WAS SUBSTANTIALLY DAMAGED BY FUSELAGE PENETRATION OF TREES AND ROTOR DAMAGE FROM TREES. PILOT AND PASSENGERS WERE UNHURT EXCEPT FOR SOME STIFFNESS. PER THE PILOT, WX REPORT, AND PASSENGERS, WEATHER WAS VFR WITH LIGHT MIST.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB LAX06FA080](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX06FA080), Jan 5, 2006: Eurocopter EC 130B4 (N11QD), Lahaina, HI, substantial damage. Probable cause: An intermittent electrical continuity failure and short of the DECU-XPC wiring harness, which resulted in an uncommanded and an initially undetected engine deceleration and a resulting loss of main…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.