- Date
- March 9, 1988, 08:05 local (13:05 UTC)
- Place
- Opa Locka, FL
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N8755FHughes 269A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 28, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880309004969A
- Case key
- 32148
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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
Student pilot lost control of helicopter during aerial taxi. The helicopter made ground contact and entered into ground resonance. When the instructor attempted to regain control of the helicopter he found the student frozen on the controls preventing him from regaining control.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8755F
- Reported as
- Hughes 269A (269-A)
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 0078
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C2D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Shelnut, Philip D
- Registered owner
- Chikao Takayanagi
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- OPF
- Airport
- OPF · Opa Locka
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
- 48
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,860 total · 156 in this make and model · 9 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OPF
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.