- Date
- October 3, 1972
- Place
- Grove City, OH · GROVE CITY, OH
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N9604FHughes 269C
- Status
- Completed · report April 19, 1973
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 169182
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4090 72/10/3 GROVE CITY,OHIO HUGHES 269C CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 28, 531 TIME - 1845 N9604F PX- 0 0 1 POLICE PATROL TOTAL HOURS, 386 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION GROVE CITY,OHIO LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION FIRE OR EXPLOSION: ON GROUND STATIC: PARKED-ENGINES NOT OPERATING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - FUEL SYSTEM: LINES AND FITTINGS MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - CORRODED/CORROSION MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - LEAK/LEAKAGE MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - FIRE IN ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - PRECAUTIONARY LANDING OFF AIRPORT AIRFRAME BUFFET REMARKS- INTERGRANULAR CORROSION FRACTURE OF NR 3 FUEL INJECTION LINE.ACFT CAUGHT FIRE AFTR ENG SHUTDOWN.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9604F
- Reported as
- Hughes 269C
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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