- Date
- June 14, 1992, 12:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Danbury, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6746DBell 47G-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920614020239A
- Case key
- 18517
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Probable cause
The failure of the landing gear skid due to internal corrosion. A factor was the soft ground.
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
A helicopter was executing a running landing to a sod runway to simulate an antitorque failure during aircraft qualification training. The left landing gear skid tube failed due to internal corrosion and the aircraft rolled over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6746D
- Reported as
- Bell 47G-2
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 2250
- Airframe hours
- 4,573
- Engine
- Lycoming VO-435A1F, 265 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Salaika, Timothy A., doing business as Salaika Aviation
- Registered owner
- Salaika, Timothy A.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 7, 1992 · 70 hours before
- Departed
- 07TA
- Airport
- 07TA · Salaika Ranch Heliport
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 10,500 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 10,200 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HOU, 26 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 N6746D · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.