- Date
- June 14, 1992, 07:00 local (12:00 UTC)
- Place
- Morgan City, LA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N2620Sikorsky S-76A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920614020049A
- Case key
- 18515
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Probable cause
The second pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control.
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 second pilot was flying the helicopter to an off shore oil platform when the oil cooler drive shaft sheared on the number two engine. The flight crew performed the emergency procedure for the failure and initiated a precautionary run on landing at their departure location. The second pilot lost control of the helicopter as he taxied onto a helipad when the right main landing gear caught the edge resulting in its collapse. The tailrotor and vertical fin struck a tree and a fence before the helicopter landed hard onto the helipad.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2620
- Reported as
- Sikorsky S-76A
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 760211
- Airframe hours
- 10,192
- Engine
- Allison 250C-30S, 700 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Operator
- Mobil Oil Explor Prod Se Inc
- Registered owner
- Mobil Oil Explor Prod Se Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 13, 1992 · 1 hours before
- Destination
- NONE · Ship Shoal 72, GM
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- 5LA2 · Mobil Heliport, runway 7, 700 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 46
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,582 total · 5,237 in this make and model · 13,871 as pilot in command · 94 in the last 90 days · 48 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PTN, 2 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 N2620 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.