- Date
- June 29, 1990, 15:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Carlsbad, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N1102HHughes 269C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900629065609A
- Case key
- 26851
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control at a hover.
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
A Hughes 269C lost control and collided with terrain. The pilot was receiving helicopter instruction for an-add on rotorcraft category rating. Before the accident the pilot had accumulated about 10 hours of dual instruction. The accident flight was his first supervised solo. According to the pilot, he had taken off to a hover and discovered the throttle friction to be too loose. He landed the helicopter and adjusted the throttle friction. The pilot took off to a hover again and entered a right hovering turn. During the turn the engine RPM dropped. The pilot increased the throttle and the helicopter began to spin right. The pilot lost control of the helicopter and impacted the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1102H
- Reported as
- Hughes 269C
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 200891
- Engine
- Lycoming HIO-360-D1A, 190 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Flight Trails Helicopters, doing business as Civic Helicopters
- Registered owner
- Civic Helicopter Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- CRQ
- Airport
- CRQ · Mcclellan-Palomar
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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,153 total · 12 in this make and model · 1,033 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.