- Date
- May 22, 1981
- Place
- Muleshoe, TX · MULESHOE, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5444GHughes 269B
- Status
- Completed · report June 8, 1981
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19810522028229A
- Case key
- 126767
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0683 81/5/22 MULESHOE,TX HUGHES 269B CR- 0 0 2 INSTRUCTIONAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1900 N5444G PX- 0 0 0 DUAL AGE 34, 1960 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 748 IN TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - WARREN DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION MULESHOE,TX LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION HARD LANDING LANDING: POWER-OFF AUTOROTATIVE LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) DUAL STUDENT - SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION DUAL STUDENT - IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS REMARKS- IP UN TO OVERRIDE STUDENT ON CTLS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5444G
- Reported as
- Hughes 269B
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Warren
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N5444G · 1
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