- Date
- September 12, 1992, 13:55 local (20:55 UTC)
- Place
- Rialto, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N58164Hughes 269C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 29, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920912036519A
- Case key
- 27761
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Probable cause
The pilot/passenger's failure to maintain adequate rotor RPM and the pilot-in-command's inadequate supervision of the flight.
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
The private pilot had rented the helicopter for a local flight. After practicing some maneuvers on the airport, the commercial pilot/passenger assumed the controls and executed a 180-DEG practice autorotation to a taxiway. The m/r RPM decreased to 380 RPM. About 30 ft AGL a power recovery was attempted, but the sink rate was too high. The tail boom sustained a m/r blade strike.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N58164
- Reported as
- Hughes 269C
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 940348
- Airframe hours
- 3,899
- Engine
- Lycoming HIO-360-D1A, 190 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Cari Aviation
- Registered owner
- Japan Acft Sale & Leasing, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 4, 1992 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- 0
- Airport
- L67 · Rialto
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
- 27
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 158 total · 55 in this make and model · 93 as pilot in command · 125 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
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 N58164 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.