- Date
- June 22, 2025, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Clay Township, MI · landing pad near restaurant
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- C-GPVBAirbus Helicopters EC130
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control in flight
- 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
- FAA Flight Standards
- Case key
- 200363
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the helicopter during 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 planned to land near a restaurant for lunch with three passengers. He over flew the landing area and then set up for a “gradual and slow” approach. When the helicopter touched down, he felt the tail drop backwards. The pilot stated that he compensated by adding collective and forward cyclic which inadvertently induced a dynamic rollover. He added that a gusty tailwind prevailed at the time of the landing. The helicopter sustained damage to the main rotor blades, the main rotor transmission mount, fuselage, and horizontal stabilizers. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures associated with the helicopter before the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- C-GPVB
- Reported as
- Airbus Helicopters EC130 (T2)
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 9683
- Built
- 2024
- Airframe hours
- 47
- Engine
- Safran Ariel2D, 856 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Vision Arr
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 23, 2025 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- KDET · Detroit, MI
- Destination
- PVT · Clay Township, MI
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- PVT · Private
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Electronic primary flight display, Video recording device
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 25, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,000 total · 1,300 as pilot in command · 82 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 93 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Observed at
- KMTC, 9 nm away
- METAR
- KMTC 221656Z 24009KT 200V260 10SM FEW050 34/23 A3001 RMK AO2A SLP161 T03350232 $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 21, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 MB in all.