- Date
- July 10, 1966
- Place
- Wichita Falls, TX · WICHITA FALLS, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2203UBrantly 305
- Status
- Completed · report March 3, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 171105
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0573 66/7/10 WICHITA FALLS TEX BRANTLY 305 CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE 46, 129 TIME - 2005 N2203U PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 57 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 UNK/NR INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - KICKAPOO TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION STALL: MUSH LANDING: TRAFFIC PATTERN-CIRCLING COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE ROTOR R.P.M.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2203U
- Reported as
- Brantly 305
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Kickapoo
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