- Date
- June 5, 1965
- Place
- Port Aransas, TX · PORT ARANSAS, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9012RBell Scarbo
- Status
- Completed · report June 29, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 179172
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0234 65/6/5 NR.PORT ARANSAS TEX BELL SCARBO CR- 0 0 1 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 34, 12000 TIME - 1630 N9012R PX- 0 0 2 AIR TAXI-PASSG TOTAL HOURS, 6000 IN DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE DITCHING LANDING: POWER-OFF AUTOROTATIVE LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - FUEL EXHAUSTION POWERPLANT - POWERPLANT-INSTRUMENTS: FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER TERRAIN - ROUGH WATER MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - CORRODED/CORROSION COMPLETE POWER LOSS - COMPLETE ENGINE FAILURE/FLAMEOUT-1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON WATER REMARKS- ACFT TURNED OVER BY WAVES AFTER DITCHING-LEFT TANK FLOAT ARM STICKING FROM CORROSION
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9012R
- Reported as
- Bell Scarbo
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
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