# NTSB ERA18WA153: Bell Helicopter 206, Barra da Tijuca, Brazil, May 9, 2018

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: May 9, 2018, 14:05 local (14:05 UTC)
- Place: Barra da Tijuca, Brazil
- Coordinates: -23.013334, -43.334444 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-23.0133&lon=-43.3344&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Enroute](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/400) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Enroute-cruise: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 1 fatal, 3 minor
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: Eastern Region Aviation
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 97314
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ERA18WA153
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/97314/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA18WA153

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Enroute-cruise: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 5,002 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240/sequence.md)
- [Uncontrolled descent: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT) ](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470); cases with it: [All aircraft, 10,189 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: PT-HKY (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BELL HELICOPTER 206 (B)
- Category: Helicopter
- Serial number: 3146
- Year built: 1980
- Airframe hours: 12760.4
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Business, Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Operator: Mapa Empreend. E Participacoes Ltda
- Registered owner: Mapa Empreend. E Participacoes Ltda
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Last inspection: February 19, 2018, 17 hours before
- Departed: SDRE, Rio de Janeiro
- Destination: SBCB, Cabo Frio
- Flight plan: VFR
- Equipment: Unknown

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: 80° at 6 knots
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 77 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Turbulence: Unknown
- Observed at: SBJR, 3 nm away

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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