- Date
- February 19, 1993, 08:45 local (13:45 UTC)
- Place
- Lincoln Park, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N67KAgusta A109AII
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930219003029A
- Case key
- 11901
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate visual lookout, which resulted in his misjudgment of clearance.
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.
On ground/water collision with object
Object - airport facilityFactor
Visual lookout - inadequateCause
Distance - misjudgedCause
Analysis
The pilot was taxiing from landing when, according to the pilot, he misjudged his distance and the rotor blades struck the hangar. The tip of one of the blades separated and punctured a hole in the tail section of a parked, unoccupied, single-engine Piper airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67K
- Reported as
- Agusta A109AII
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 7356
- Airframe hours
- 848
- Engine
- Allison 250-C20R11, 450 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- East Coast Flight Services
- Registered owner
- Chancellor Point Enterprises
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 20, 1992 · 71 hours before
- Departed
- MMU · Morristown, NJ
- Airport
- N07 · Lincoln Park, runway 1, 2,492 × 40 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 47
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 10,141 total · 264 in this make and model · 9,799 as pilot in command · 74 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.