- Date
- July 1, 1989, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Baltimore, MD
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N1113ZHughes 269C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 2, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11515
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot landed on unsuitable soft terrain which caused the landing skid to sink into the ground. This resulted in a landing skid overload failure and nose over of the helicopter. Contributing to the accident was the soft terrain.
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
The acft was air taxiing at 2 ft AGL when the instructor cut the power to simulate a power loss. According to the student and instructor, a normal landing followed; however, the acft nosed over. Upon exiting the acft they noticed they had landed on a dirt mount and the left landing skid had failed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1113Z
- Reported as
- Hughes 269C
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 1000972
- Airframe hours
- 6,904
- Engine
- Lycoming HIO-360-D1A, 190 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Omniflight
- Registered owner
- Omniflight Aircraft Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 16, 1991 · 2 hours before
- Airport
- MTN · Martin State
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
- 41
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Private, Commercial
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,170 total · 550 in this make and model · 750 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MTN