- Date
- September 10, 1990, 13:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Oahu, HI
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 4 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N3200NBell 206B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900910038829A
- Case key
- 26525
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Probable cause
The passenger's failure to follow boarding instructions.
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.
Propeller/rotor contact to person
Procedures/directives - not followedCause
Analysis
A passenger, waiting to board a helicopter and acting contrary to instructions, proceeded underneath the tailboom and was struck by the tailrotor.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3200N
- Reported as
- Bell 206B
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 3812
- Airframe hours
- 1,855
- Engine
- Allison 250-C20J, 400 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Hawaii Int'L Helicopters, doing business as Helicopters
- Registered owner
- I.S. International U.S.A.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 8, 1990 · 3 hours before
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,935 total · 1,044 as pilot in command · 120 in the last 90 days · 32 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.