- Date
- October 24, 1986, 13:50 local (17:50 UTC)
- Place
- Harborton, VA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N24684Robinson R22B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11298
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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
During an apch to land, the plt expereinced a loss of tail rotor effectiveness and the acft rotated to the right. The airspeed was reported as 30 mph with a descent rate of 150 fpm and the acft was less than 50 ft AGL. The acft then descended to a collision with the terrain. The plt did not report lowering the collective to recover rotor RPM. The acft was on one of several flight legs from torrance, CA to princeton, NJ. It had 74 hrs total time.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24684
- Reported as
- Robinson R22B
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 590
- Airframe hours
- 74
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-B2D, 124 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mid-Jersey Helicopter Ltd.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Franklin, VA
- Destination
- Harborton, VA
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
- 61
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight engineer, Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 22,207 total · 22,169 as pilot in command · 206 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg