- Date
- June 17, 2022, 08:20 local (13:20 UTC)
- Place
- Yoakum, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N743DPRobinson Helicopter R22 Beta
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20220617010579A
- Case key
- 105423
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's loss of helicopter control on approach to land due to a settling with power condition, which resulted in a hard landing.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
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.
Analysis
The pilot reported that the purpose of the flight was to complete a solo cross-country for the requirements of an additional rotorcraft rating. He conducted a steep approach to the runway and was about 5 to 10 ft above the ground when the helicopter began settling with power. He attempted to fly forward but the helicopter continued to descend. He added that he might have increased the collective input and pulled back on the cyclic. The helicopter landed hard and sustained substantial damage to the fuselage steel tubing structure. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N743DP
- Reported as
- Robinson Helicopter R22 Beta
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 3429
- Built
- 2003
- Airframe hours
- 4,354.3
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Veracity Aviation LLC
- Registered owner
- Veracity Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 22, 2022
- Departed
- T20 · Gonzalez, TX
- Destination
- T85 · Yoakum, TX
- Airport
- T85 · Yoakum Municipal Airport, runway 13, 3,444 × 60 ft, asphalt
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
- 60
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 15, 2021
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 9,457 total · 39 in this make and model · 6,905 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- KVCT, 29 nm away
- METAR
- KVCT 171351Z 14004KT 7SM SCT030 28/24 A3005 RMK AO2 SLP175 T02780239
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 22, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.1 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.