ERA10WA394

NTSB accident investigation · Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206B · Libertad, Uruguay · July 29, 2010

Accident · FatalForeign investigation
Date
July 29, 2010
Place
Libertad, Uruguay
Injuries
1 fatal, 1 uninjured
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N527TKBell Helicopter Textron Canada 206B
Weather
Visual (VMC) · Day
NTSB office
Eastern Region Aviation
Lead agency
Other
Case key
76841

From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.

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Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.

Aircraft

Registration
N527TK
Reported as
Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206B
Category
Helicopter
Serial number
4198
Damage
Substantial damage
Flight
Business · Non-U.S., non-commercial
Airworthiness certificate
Unknown
Destination
Buenos Aires
Flight plan
Unknown

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.

Weather

Conditions
Visual (VMC) · Day

Docket · 1

The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 18, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 10 KB in all.