- Date
- May 19, 1969
- Place
- Irvine, CA · IRVINE, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N9485FHughes 269B
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 170736
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2252 69/5/19 IRVINE,CALIF HUGHES 269B CR- 0 0 1 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 37, 4223 TIME - 1400 N9485F PX- 0 0 1 MAPPING/PHOTO TOTAL HOURS, 23 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: AUTOMOBILE STATIC: IDLING ROTORS PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN PERSONNEL - MISCELLANEOUS-PERSONNEL: DRIVER OF VEHICLE REMARKS- ACFT LANDED IN PARKING LOT. M/R BLADES WERE STRUCK BY A FARM TRUCK.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9485F
- Reported as
- Hughes 269B
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
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