- Date
- November 5, 1967
- Place
- Chula Vista, CA · CHULA VISTA, CA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7107Bensen B8M
- Status
- Completed · report January 19, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 113507
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0840 67/11/5 CHULA VISTA,CALIF BENSEN B8M CR- 1 0 0 INSTRUCTIONAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 47, 252 TIME - 1030 N7107 PX- 0 0 0 TRAINING TOTAL HOURS, 22 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - BROWN FIELD TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISCELLANEOUS LANDING: TRAFFIC PATTERN-CIRCLING COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS FACTOR(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT REMARKS- ACFT WAS OBSERVED PORPOISING IN FLIGHT,ROTOR STRUCK RUDDER AND PROP.PLT POWERED GYRO TIME-1 HR.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7107
- Reported as
- Bensen B8M
- Category
- Gyroplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Brown Field
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