- Date
- May 6, 1966
- Place
- Albuquerque, NM · ALBUQUERQUE, NM
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N74121Bell 47D1
- Status
- Completed · report September 23, 1966
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 172372
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0235 66/5/6 ALBUQUERQUE N MEX BELL 47D1 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 32, 609 TIME - 1015 N74121 PX- 0 0 0 PRACTICE TOTAL HOURS, 21 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - CORONADO TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION IN FLIGHT: SWATH RUN HARD LANDING LANDING: POWER-OFF AUTOROTATIVE LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - FUEL EXHAUSTION PILOT-IMPROPERLY EXECUTED AUTOROTATIVE LANDING. FACTOR(S) POWERPLANT - POWERPLANT-INSTRUMENTS: FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE COMPLETE POWER LOSS - COMPLETE ENGINE FAILURE/FLAMEOUT-1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING ON AIRPORT/SEAPLANE BASE/HELIPT. REMARKS- NOT USING RUNWAY.KNOW FUEL WAS LOW AND GAGE INOP
Aircraft
- Registration
- N74121
- Reported as
- Bell 47D1
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Coronado
N74121Registration cancelled May 8, 2013 · Bell 47D1Airframe modelBell 47D1Engine modelFranklin 6V4 series
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.
Other investigations on N74121 · 5
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.