- Date
- March 24, 2011, 22:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- San Clemente, Chile
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- CC-CIDBell 205
- Defining event
- Maneuvering: Loss of tail rotor effectiveness
- Weather
- Visual (VMC)
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 78686
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.
Loss of tail rotor effectivenessAll aircraft: 100 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- CC-CID
- Reported as
- Bell 205 (A1)
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 30081
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Firefighting · Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Operator
- FAASA Chile Servicio Aereos LTDA
- Registered owner
- FAASA Chile Servicio Aereos LTDA
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Departed
- San Clemente
- Destination
- San Clemente
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- None
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC)