- Date
- June 28, 1985, 09:18 local (16:18 UTC)
- Place
- Grand Canyon, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N2766YBell 206B3
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850628028539A
- Case key
- 24759
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
During a movie filming flight, the helicopter was acting as the camera platform and filming a fixed wing aircraft during a straight in appraoch to the airport, the plt of the helicopter requested a right 180 degree turn at mid field to land at the north helipad ramp area. Witnesses saw the helicopter start an 'abrupt climbing right turn,' then yaw as it descended into the ground. The helicopter rolled over on touchdown with the sloping ground at the north airport boundary. The pilot stated therewere no malfunctions or failures of the helicopter and that he encountered a 'loss of tail rotor effectiveness'during the turn to the landing area.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2766Y
- Reported as
- Bell 206B3
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 2761
- Airframe hours
- 2,599
- Engine
- Allison 250-C20B, 317 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jet Copters, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 31, 1985 · 204 hours before
- Airport
- GCN · Grand Canyon, runway 21, 8,999 × 150 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,750 total · 1,500 in this make and model · 2,500 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GCN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.