- Date
- October 28, 1983, 10:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N544Aerospatiale SE 3180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831028055999A
- Case key
- 16179
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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.
Analysis
The helicopter crashed during a landing on the crest of a mountain. The french helicopter unlike American helicopters has a main rotor that rotates clockwise. To compensate for increased torque the plt must use right pedal instead of leftpedal. The plt in this accident had many hours in American helicopters and less than 100 hours in the french type. All occupants of the acft agreed on the rapid counter-clockwise spinning of the acft prior to ground contact.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N544
- Reported as
- Aerospatiale SE 3180
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 1328
- Airframe hours
- 5,230
- Engine
- Turbomeca ASTAZOU II, 485 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Skynight Helicopter, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 12, 1983 · 80 hours before
- Departed
- Grantsville, UT
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 42
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 75 in this make and model · 153 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.