- Date
- July 16, 1966
- Place
- Powell, TN · POWELL, TN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N6357XBell 47D1
- Status
- Completed · report March 20, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 171680
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0617 66/7/16 POWELL TENN BELL 47D1 CR- 0 0 1 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 30, 2300 TIME - 1100 N6357X PX- 0 0 0 CTR CARGO-D TOTAL HOURS, 750 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - POWELL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED TAKEOFF: VERTICAL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PERSONNEL - MISCELLANEOUS-PERSONNEL: GROUND SIGNALMAN MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - IMPROPERLY LOADED AIRCRAFT-WEIGHT-AND/OR C.G. MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - LATERAL IMBALANCE FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - JETTISONED LOAD EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - LATERAL CONTROL PROBLEM PITCH CONTROL PROBLEM REMARKS- PILOT GIVEN LIFT-OFF SIGNAL BEFORE SLING LOAD WAS PROPERLY ATTACHED.MAN INJURED ESCAPING BLADES.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6357X
- Reported as
- Bell 47D1
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Powell
N6357XRegistration cancelled Mar 22, 1972 · Bell Kitz Kopters 47D1Airframe modelBell Kitz Kopters 47D1
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.
Other investigations on N6357X · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.