- Date
- August 5, 2016, 14:05 local (14:05 UTC)
- Place
- Drakensburg Mountain, South Africa
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- ZS-HBSRobinson R66
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 93925
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Hard landingAll aircraft: 2,102 casesDefining event
Factual narrative
The government of South Africa has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a ROBINSON R66 helicopter that occurred on August 05, 2016. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the government of South Africa's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13.All investigative information will be released by the government of South Africa.
Aircraft
- Registration
- ZS-HBS
- Reported as
- Robinson R66
- Category
- Helicopter
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Non-U.S., non-commercial