- Date
- July 11, 1971
- Place
- Sugar Grove, IL · SUGAR GROVE, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N10DWRotorway Scorpn
- Status
- Completed · report December 9, 1971
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 162219
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0771 71/7/11 SUGAR GROVE,ILL ROTORWAY SCORPN CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL ATP,FLIGHT INSTR., AGE TIME - 1030 N10DW PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP 42, 3512 TOTAL HOURS, 1 DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - AURORA DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION SUGAR GROVE,ILL LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED TAXI: AERIAL TAXI, OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS PILOT IN COMMAND - LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - DOWNWIND REMARKS- THIS ROTOR SYS TURNS L TO R.DWND TURN TO L,PLT ADDED R RUD.1 HR IN TYPE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N10DW
- Reported as
- Rotorway Scorpn
- Category
- Helicopter, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Aurora
N10DWRegistration cancelled Apr 25, 2000 · Willcox ROTORWAY SCORPIONAirframe modelWillcox ROTORWAY SCORPION
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.