- Date
- March 25, 2025, 07:45 local (12:45 UTC)
- Place
- Puerto Lopez, Ecuador · Pacific Ocean, coordinates provided are inaccurate
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- HC-CXLRobinson R44
- Defining event
- Enroute: Loss of engine power (partial)
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 199994
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Loss of engine power (partial)All aircraft: 1,858 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- HC-CXL
- Reported as
- Robinson R44 (II)
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 12226
- Flight
- Aerial observation · Non-U.S., commercial
- Departed
- Barco Pesquero
- Destination
- Barco Pesquero