- Date
- August 20, 1992, 15:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Irwindale, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N595HEnstrom F28C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920820032889A
- Case key
- 27742
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudgment of the landing flare during a practice autorotation.
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
According to the pilot, he was practicing autorotations to a flood control basin area. On the mishap autorotation the pilot said he misjudged his flare and landed hard, buckling the tail boom.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N595H
- Reported as
- Enstrom F28C
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 372
- Airframe hours
- 2,806
- Engine
- Lycoming HIO-360-E1AD, 205 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Thomas R. O'Hara
- Registered owner
- Thomas R. O'Hara
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 27, 1992 · 7 hours before
- Departed
- EMT · El Monte, CA
- Destination
- EMT
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 992 total · 345 in this make and model · 889 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 104 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N595H · 4
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.