- Date
- April 14, 1969
- Place
- Sabine, TX · SABINE, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1143WBell 47G-4
- Status
- Completed · report June 25, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 189562
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1136 69/4/14 SABINE,TEX BELL 47G-4 CR- 0 1 0 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 33, 2177 TIME - 1010 N1143W PX- 0 0 2 AIR TAXI-PASSG TOTAL HOURS, 386 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION HARD LANDING LANDING: POWER-OFF AUTOROTATIVE LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - PRECAUTIONARY LANDING OFF AIRPORT SUSPECTED MECHANICAL DISCREPANCY PROP/ENGINE VIBRATION REMARKS- PLT REPORTED HEARING LOUD NOISE FOLLOWED BY VIBRATION IN T/R ASSY.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1143W
- Reported as
- Bell 47G-4
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
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