- Date
- January 15, 1992, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Pompano Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5119NHughes 369D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920115001899A
- Case key
- 33055
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Probable cause
Improper collective input by the pilot-in-command and inadequate supervision by the check pilot.
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.
Hard landing
Collective - improperCause
Supervision - inadequateCause
Analysis
The CFI acting as a check pilot was observing the rated trainee perform 180 degree autorotative landings to touch down. After touchdown on the sixth autorotation the main rotor blades contacted the tail boom.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5119N
- Reported as
- Hughes 369D
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 1097D
- Airframe hours
- 2,778
- Engine
- Allison 250-C-20B, 420 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Heliflight, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Heliflight Leasing, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 25, 1991 · 72 hours before
- Airport
- PMP · Pompano Beach Airpark
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 43
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,500 total · 1,100 in this make and model · 4,200 as pilot in command · 78 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 11 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PMP, 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.