- Date
- November 20, 2013, 10:30 local (10:30 UTC)
- Place
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- PR-MXMRobinson R66
- Defining event
- Approach: Loss of tail rotor effectiveness
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Lead agency
- Other
- Parties
- Robinson Helicopter, Rolls Royce
- Case key
- 88466
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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
- PR-MXM
- Reported as
- Robinson R66
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 0195
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Registered owner
- Hotel Portobelo S.A.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- SBJR · Rio De Janeiro
- Destination
- SIWS · Mangaratiba
- Airport
- SIWS · Hotel Portebello Heliport
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 16, 2013, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 54 KB in all.