- Date
- March 7, 1987, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N6140CBell 47G-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 21, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19870307005419A
- Case key
- 4771
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
A flight instructor and his commercial rotorcraft student were practicing quick stops to a hover at low altitude over a snow covered non-maintained airstrip. The student, a commercially rated fixed wing pilot, had successfully completed three quick stops, but struck the tail rotor on the runway surface on his fourth attempt causing the tail rotor to separate from the aircraft. The flight instructor took the controls and made an emergency landing. The helicopter landed hard and rolled onto its right side. The helicopter was substantially damaged, but neither pilot was injured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6140C
- Reported as
- Bell 47G-2
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 47
- Airframe hours
- 8,399
- Engine
- Lycoming VO-435-B1A, 265 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Wilbur'S Flight Operations
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 15, 1986 · 83 hours before
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Airport
- CSR · Campbell Airstrip, runway 2, 5,000 × 150 ft, snow
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 57
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 31,000 total · 190 in this make and model · 29,000 as pilot in command · 230 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 16 °F, dew point 9 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N6140C · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.