- Date
- November 3, 1967
- Place
- Taswell, IN · TASWELL, IN
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N2208UBrantly 305
- Status
- Completed · report April 30, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 113628
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-1092 67/11/3 TASWELL,IND BRANTLY 305 CR- 1 0 0 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 39, 744 TIME - 1028 N2208U PX- 2 0 0 POWER/PIPELINE TOTAL HOURS, 153 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION PROPELLER/ROTOR FAILURE: MAIN ROTOR UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) ROTORCRAFT - ROTOR ASSEMBLIES: MAIN ROTOR HEAD ASSEMBLIES ROTORCRAFT - ROTOR ASSEMBLIES: BEARINGS ROTORCFT-M/R CLEVIS BEARINGS SEIZED. ROTORCRAFT - ROTOR ASSEMBLIES: MAIN ROTOR BLADES MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - FATIGUE FRACTURE FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEPARATION IN FLIGHT REMARKS- MAIN ROTOR TORSION STRAPS FAILED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2208U
- Reported as
- Brantly 305
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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