- Date
- April 11, 1967
- Place
- Greenville, MI · GREENVILLE, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N2469BBell 47G
- Status
- Completed · report October 11, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 117863
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0515 67/4/11 GREENVILLE,MICH BELL 47G CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1330 N2469B PX- 0 0 0 EXPERIMENTATION AGE 38, 5388 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 3000 IN TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - GREENVILLE TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISCELLANEOUS TAKEOFF: VERTICAL COLLIDED WITH: DIRT BANK IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - JETTISONED LOAD REMARKS- PLT LOST CONTROL WHEN SLING LOAD DUG INTO SOFT TERRAIN.CHOSEN AREA HAD MARGINAL MANEUVERING SPACE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2469B
- Reported as
- Bell 47G
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Greenville
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Other investigations on N2469B · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.