- Date
- October 6, 1991, 17:27 local (21:27 UTC)
- Place
- Hollywood, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N78CFBell 206-L-1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911006045089A
- Case key
- 33015
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain rotor RPM and the failure of the CFI to monitor the controls.
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 instructor pilot simulated an engine failure and the pilot executed a 180-degree autorotation. During the flare and cushion the pilot allowed the rotor RPM to decay and the instructor pilot did not monitor the pilot's use of the collective pitch control. Shortly after touchdown a vibration was felt and the tailboom failed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N78CF
- Reported as
- Bell 206-L-1
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 45206
- Engine
- Allison 250-C-28, 435 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Crescent Airways
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- HWO · North Perry
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
- 39
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,000 total · 3,000 in this make and model · 16 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Observed at
- HWO, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.