- Date
- October 7, 1969
- Place
- Morgan City, LA · MORGAN CITY, LA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N292FWBell 206A
- Status
- Completed · report January 30, 1970
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 159990
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2935 69/10/7 MORGAN CITY,LA BELL 206A CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 37, 2367 TIME - 1300 N292FW PX- 0 0 1 TEST TOTAL HOURS, 88 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - AMELIA DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION MORGAN CITY,LA MORGAN CITY,LA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: FINAL APPROACH COLLIDED WITH: DITCHES LANDING: POWER-OFF AUTOROTATIVE LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - MISCELLANEOUS: POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- ACFT ROCKED FORWARD INTO DITCH.TAIL BOOM CUT OFF BY M/R BLADE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N292FW
- Reported as
- Bell 206A
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Amelia
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