- Date
- January 3, 1968
- Place
- Los Angeles, CA · LOS ANGELES, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N7821SBell 47G-4A
- Status
- Completed · report May 6, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 111417
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0657 68/1/3 LOS ANGELES,CALIF BELL 47G-4A CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS ATP,FLIGHT INSTR., AGE TIME - 0852 N7821S PX- 0 1 0 POLICE PATROL 42, 2500 TOTAL HOURS, 500 DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 IN TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - TEMPLE-GRAND TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION PROPELLER/ROTOR FAILURE: TAIL ROTOR IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE COLLIDED WITH: OBJECT LANDING: POWER-OFF AUTOROTATIVE LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) ROTORCRAFT - ROTOR ASSEMBLIES: TAIL ROTOR BLADES MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - FATIGUE FRACTURE FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEPARATION IN FLIGHT EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- LANDED ON CITY ST.TAIL BOOM STRUCK CONCRETE WALL.TOTAL TIME ON T/R 567 HRS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7821S
- Reported as
- Bell 47G-4A
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Temple-Grand
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