- Date
- May 2, 1984, 11:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- New Braunfels, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5063GHughes 500D
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840502016739A
- Case key
- 21322
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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
Despite adverse wx which forced the plt to stop once enroute to his dest the flt was continued. Directional control was lost when the tail rotor contacted the terrain separating both tail rotor blades from the acft and torsionally shearing the tail rotor drive shaft. Pwr was reduced and theplt autorotated into a field. The tailboom was struck by themain rotor blade during the ldg. During the ldg.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5063G
- Reported as
- Hughes 500D
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 711021D
- Airframe hours
- 835
- Engine
- Allison 250-C20B, 375 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Joe R. Brown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 1984 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- Kerrville, TX
- Destination
- 3R5 · New Braunfels, TX
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
- 44
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 15,120 total · 120 in this make and model · 120 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 4 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 800 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SAT, 20 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.
Other investigations on N5063G · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.