- Date
- July 3, 1984, 12:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Muncie, IN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N13CMEnstrom F-28A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 12455
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
According to the plt, he was in a 20 deg left bank with an airspeed of about 40 KTS when the helicopter began rotation to the right. He entered an autorotation & landed with a forward speed of about 5 KTS. An exam revealed that the tail rotor drive shaft had failed. The drive shaft had about 1314 flt hrs of operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N13CM
- Reported as
- Enstrom F-28A
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 090
- Airframe hours
- 1,314
- Engine
- Lycoming HIO-360-C1B, 205 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Olympian Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- IND · Indianapolis, IN
- Airport
- MIE · Delaware Co.
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,077 total · 75 in this make and model · 9,525 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MIE
Other investigations on N13CM · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.