- Date
- February 21, 1973
- Place
- Salt Lake City, UT · SALT LAKE CITY, UT
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N73972Bell 47G3B1
- Status
- Completed · report April 4, 1973
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19730221003109A
- Case key
- 169950
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0340 73/2/21 SALT LAKE CITY,UT BELL 47G3B1 CR- 0 0 1 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 37, 5790 TIME - 1000 N73972 PX- 0 0 3 AIR TAXI-PASSG TOTAL HOURS, 300 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION PARK CITY,UTAH SNOWBIRD RESORT TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: POWER-ON LANDING HARD LANDING LANDING: POWER-OFF AUTOROTATIVE LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - ENGINE STRUCTURE: OTHER MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - MATERIAL FAILURE TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - DOWNWIND PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE REMARKS- FORCED TO LAND DOWN WIND AND DOWN SLOPE.BROKEN TIMING GEAR.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N73972
- Reported as
- Bell 47G3B1
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
N73972Registration cancelled May 7, 2013 · Bell 47G-3B-1Airframe modelBell 47G-3B-1Engine modelLycoming TVO-435-GIA
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N73972 · 4
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