- Date
- September 8, 1979
- Place
- Ketchikan, AK · KETCHIKAN, AK
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N8746FHughes 269A
- Status
- Completed · report July 9, 1980
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19790908043479A
- Case key
- 132769
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3713 79/9/8 NR.KETCHIKAN,AK HUGHES 269A CR- 0 0 0 MISCELLANEOUS CERTIFICATE UNKNOWN, AGE TIME - UNK/NR N8746F PX- 0 0 0 UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED UNK/NR, UNK/NR TOTAL DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 HOURS, UNK/NR IN TYPE, UNK/NR INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION UNDETERMINED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER REMARKS- NON-PILOT OWNER FOUND DROWNED.PAX/PLT WHO ARRIVED WITH OWNER STATED HE WAS FISHING AT TIME OF ACDT
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8746F
- Reported as
- Hughes 269A
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Private Helipad
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N8746F · 1
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