- Date
- October 28, 1970
- Place
- Cedar City, UT · CEDAR CITY, UT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N441FHHiller Acft FH1100
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1971
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 158836
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4555 70/10/28 NR.CEDAR CITY,UT HILLER ACFT FH1100 CR- 0 0 2 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 28, 3384 TIME - 1145 N441FH PX- 0 0 0 FERRY TOTAL HOURS, 100 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION CEDAR CITY,UT GRAND CANYON,ARIZ TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION HARD LANDING LANDING: POWER-ON LANDING COLLIDED WITH: OBJECT LANDING: POWER-ON LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS FACTOR(S) WEATHER - HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, IN PERSON WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - PRECAUTIONARY LANDING OFF AIRPORT PHYSICAL CONDITION OF PASSENGER SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE CLEAR UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F NONE 42 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 350 5 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR NONE REMARKS- EMERG LDG DUE CREW COMFORT.RAPID DSCNT,HARD LDG,T/R HIT POST. DENS ALT APRXLY 9500FT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N441FH
- Reported as
- Hiller Acft FH1100
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
N441FHRegistration cancelled Oct 15, 1976 · Fairchild Hiller FH-1100Airframe modelFairchild Hiller FH-1100
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Other investigations on N441FH · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.