- Date
- August 19, 1988, 19:16 local (23:16 UTC)
- Place
- Indianapolis, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N295CKBell 206L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 10, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 14001
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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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.
Near collision between aircraft
Atc clearance - not understoodCause
Traffic advisory - inadequateFactor
Remedial action - inadequateCause
Aircraft
- Registration
- N295CK
- Reported as
- Bell 206L
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 45044
- Airframe hours
- 2,807
- Engine
- Allison 250-C20B, 420 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Superior Training, Inc., doing business as Superior Training, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Has Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 3, 1988 · 69 hours before
- Departed
- PVT · Indianapolis, IN
- Airport
- IND · Indianapolis Intl, runway 22R, 10,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 60
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 10,558 total · 620 in this make and model · 10,400 as pilot in command · 88 in the last 90 days · 34 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IND, 1 nm away