- Date
- August 16, 1980
- Place
- Wakefield, LA · WAKEFIELD, LA
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1093DHughes 269B
- Status
- Completed · report September 17, 1980
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 129451
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1897 80/8/16 NR.WAKEFIELD,LA HUGHES 269B CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 32, 1173 TIME - 1730 N1093D PX- 0 0 2 CORP/EXEC TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION ZACHARY,LA WAKEFIELD,LA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: POWER-ON LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN FACTOR(S) WEATHER - OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION WEATHER BRIEFING - NO RECORD OF BRIEFING RECEIVED WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE SCATTERED UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F DUST 90 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 130 7 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR NONE REMARKS- ACFT HOVERED INTO CONST AREA & ENTERED DUST-OUT CONDITION.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1093D
- Reported as
- Hughes 269B
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
N1093DRegistration cancelled Jul 24, 2012 · Hughes 269BAirframe modelHughes 269BEngine modelLycoming HIO-360 series
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.
Other investigations on N1093D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.