- Date
- July 17, 2022, 12:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Orlando, FL · On airport
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N224MGRobinson Helicopter R22 Beta
- Defining event
- Standing-engine(s) start-up: Dynamic rollover
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220717007239A
- Case key
- 105545
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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Probable cause
The flight instructor’s inadequate remedial actions following the student pilot’s improper control inputs, which resulted in dynamic rollover.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
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.
Analysis
The flight instructor reported that the student pilot was practicing “pickups and set downs” in the helicopter for the day’s lesson. He said in his statement that the student had a tendency to pull up quickly on the collective and allow the helicopter to drift to the left then yaw to the right after liftoff. He cautioned the student on the hazards of dynamic rollover during the lesson. The student’s performance improved, and she asked to perform one more pickup. During the last attempt, a dynamic rollover occurred and the helicopter pivoted around the left skid as it was still on the ground. The helicopter came to rest on its left side. The impact with the ground resulted in substantial damage to the main rotor blades, tail boom and fuselage. The flight instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the helicopter that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N224MG
- Reported as
- Robinson Helicopter R22 Beta
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 3276
- Built
- 2001
- Airframe hours
- 7,296
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-J2A, 145 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Maxflight Helicopter Services
- Registered owner
- Airman Helicopter Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 29, 2022
- Airport
- ISM · Kissimmee Gateway
- Equipment
- ADS-B
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.
Flight crew · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 54
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 1, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 3,966 total · 706 in this make and model · 1,771 as pilot in command · 121 in the last 90 days · 35 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 59
- Injuries
- None
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 13 total · 13 in this make and model · 7 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- KISM
- METAR
- KISM 171656Z 15009KT 10SM CLR 32/23 A3005 RMK AO2 SLP174 T03170228 PNO $
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 2, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 20.4 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.