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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Sikorsky S-76B · Constanza · April 27, 2013

Date
April 27, 2013 · 09:15 local
Place
Constanza
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N305SJ
Reported as
Sikorsky S-76B
People aboard
7
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
7
Pilot’s certificate
Unknown or foreign certificate

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.

The pilot strucked a helipad landing light with a landing gear wheel. The helicopter tilted tower ground inducing a dynamic roll over and the main rotor head strucked the ground while trying to touch down at the Constanza hotel helipad.

As the FAA filed it

THE PILOT STRUCKED A HELIPAD LANDING LIGHT WITH A LANDING GEAR WHEEL. THE HELICOPTER TILTED TOWER GROUND INDUCING A DYNAMIC ROLL OVER AND THE MAIN ROTOR HEAD STRUCKED THE GROUND WHILE TRYING TO TOUCH DOWN AT THE CONSTANZA HOTEL HELIPAD.