- Date
- March 21, 1968
- Place
- Marlow Heights, MD · MARLOW HEIGHTS, MD
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N9502FHughes 300
- Status
- Completed · report August 20, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 110930
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1947 68/3/21 MARLOW HEIGHTS,MD HUGHES 300 CR- 2 0 0 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 35, 2000 TIME - 0130 N9502F PX- 0 0 0 POLICE PATROL TOTAL HOURS, 269 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: WIRES/POLES IN FLIGHT: HOVERING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT PILOT-HOVERED OVER UNFAMILIAR AREA AT NIGHT. TERRAIN - HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- INVESTIGATING SUSPECTED BANK ROBBERY.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9502F
- Reported as
- Hughes 300
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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