- Date
- July 25, 1983, 22:45 local (Jul 26, 1983, 03:45 UTC)
- Place
- Kemah, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured; on the ground: 1 serious
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N1109Hughes 369D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 20989
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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 plt had landed in a restaurant parking lot. When he was informed that a local ordinance had been passed prohibiting helicopter operations from restaurant parking lots & that the police had been called, he prepared to takeoff. As the plt was preparing to lift off, a person aproached the helicopter to protest its operation near his trailer house & told the plt not to take off. The plt stated he was afraid for his safety & lifted off to a hover & back down 'a couple of times' until the person jumped off. The person either jumped or fell about 20 ft & was injured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1109
- Reported as
- Hughes 369D
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 1200856D
- Airframe hours
- 390
- Engine
- Allison 250-C20B, 375 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Interdrill Oil & Cas Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 14, 1982 · 40 hours before
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 42
- Certificate
- Private
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 4,800 total · 105 in this make and model · 4,685 as pilot in command · 95 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 200° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EFD, 12 nm away