- Date
- March 2, 1982, 12:50 local (18:50 UTC)
- Place
- High Island Blk
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N63ALBell 206B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 2, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820302046679A
- Case key
- 71023
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The aircraft was low on the approach and during the flare, the vertical fin and tail boom contacted the safety netting extending beyond the boundaries of the platform landing area. The aircraft then settled back off the platform with one main rotor blade striking flat on the landing area prior to the aircraft coming to rest in the water. No preimpact malfunction or failure was determined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63AL
- Reported as
- Bell 206B
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 1429
- Airframe hours
- 7,529
- Engine
- Allison 250-C20B, 317 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Air Logistics Inc.
- Registered owner
- Air Logistics Inc.
- Departed
- Galveston Blk 3, GM
- Destination
- New Philadelphi, OH
- Flight plan
- VFR
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 33
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,132 total · 810 in this make and model · 2,830 as pilot in command · 90 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- 147 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- NEW, 120 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.