# NTSB GAA25WA091: Hughes 269C, Dippenricht, Germany, February 9, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: February 9, 2025, 12:20 local (12:20 UTC)
- Place: Dippenricht, Germany
- Phase of flight: [Unknown](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/990) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Unknown: Unknown or undetermined](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 2 fatal
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency: Other
- Parties: German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation
- NTSB case key (mKey): 199692
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA25WA091
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/199692/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA25WA091

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Unknown: Unknown or undetermined](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 1,703 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: D-HSEP (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: HUGHES 269C
- Category: Helicopter
- Serial number: S1451
- Year built: 1990
- Damage: Destroyed
- Flight: Personal, Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Operator: Franken-Helikopters
- Registered owner: Franken-Helikopters

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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