- Date
- September 15, 1978
- Place
- Salisbury, NC · SALISBURY, NC
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- NONEBensen B8
- Status
- Completed · report December 1, 1978
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 139265
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3250 78/9/15 SALISBURY,NC BENSEN B8 CR- 1 0 0 MISCELLANEOUS NO CERTIFICATE, AGE TIME - 1130 NONE PX- 0 0 0 TEST UNK/NR, 0 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 ALL IN TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - ROWAN COUNTY DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION SALISBURY,NC LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION PROPELLER/ROTOR FAILURE: MAIN ROTOR LANDING: TRAFFIC PATTERN-CIRCLING COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNQUALIFIED PERSON OPERATED AIRCRAFT FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEPARATION IN FLIGHT REMARKS- WOODEN ROTOR BLADE STRUCK RUDDER IN STEEP TURN.NO PREVIOUS PLT EXPERIENCE.ACFT NOT CERTIFICATED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- NONE
- Reported as
- Bensen B8
- Category
- Gyroplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Rowan County