- Date
- April 5, 2018, 12:49 local (12:49 UTC)
- Place
- Crestet, France
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- F-PFBJRotorway Exec
- Defining event
- Enroute: Mast bumping
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 98680
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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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Mast bumpingAll aircraft: 18 casesDefining event
Factual narrative
The government of France has notified the NTSB of an accident involving an amateur-built ROTORWAY EXEC helicopter that occurred on April 05, 2018. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the government of France's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13.All investigative information will be released by the government of France.
Aircraft
- Registration
- F-PFBJ
- Reported as
- Rotorway Exec
- Category
- Helicopter, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 8032
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Operator
- Mr. Barnard Foucher
- Registered owner
- Mr. Barnard Foucher
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Departed
- France, Cabron
- Destination
- France, Eurre
- Equipment
- Unknown