- Date
- September 26, 1987, 11:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Bountiful, UT
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5692DEnstrom 280C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 6, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870926056559A
- Case key
- 17316
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
While on a local low level pleasure flt the plt failed to see power lines and an in flight collision with the lines occurred severing the right skid and 90 degree gear box from the acft. A semi-autorotative crash occurred on the bank of a irrigation reservoir.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5692D
- Reported as
- Enstrom 280C
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 1183
- Airframe hours
- 306
- Engine
- Lycoming HI0-360-E1AD, 205 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Lynn Roger Calder
- Registered owner
- Curtis S. Johnson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 1, 1986 · 55 hours before
- Departed
- BTF · Bountiful, 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 350 total · 123 in this make and model · 123 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BTF, 15 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.