- Date
- March 8, 1967
- Place
- Kingman, AZ · KINGMAN, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N73991Bell 47G3B1
- Status
- Completed · report June 29, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 119110
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0087 67/3/8 NR.KINGMAN,ARIZ BELL 47G3B1 CR- 0 1 0 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 41, 4000 TIME - 1620 N73991 PX- 0 0 0 CTR PASSG-D TOTAL HOURS, 900 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: POWER-ON LANDING COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED LANDING: POWER-OFF AUTOROTATIVE LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) WEATHER - SUDDEN WINDSHIFT FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN WEATHER BRIEFING - NO RECORD OF BRIEFING RECEIVED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE CLEAR UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F NONE 50 WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS 15 VFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN NONE FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- HELIPAD IN HILLY TERRAIN.GUST CAUSED T/R TO STRIKE TREE STUMP.ACFT WAS SPINNING TO RIGHT AT T/D.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N73991
- Reported as
- Bell 47G3B1
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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Other investigations on N73991 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.
NTSB LAX83LUJ05Accident · No injuriesFinal reportTucson, AZThe single engine land airplane pilot was on a solo instructional flight, practicing landings in the helicopter. He reported that during a landing, he was too fast. While flaring, the tail rotor hit the ground and one of the tail rotor blades separated.…NTSB LAX73AL009Accident · 1 fatalClosedTuba City, AZ