- Date
- December 21, 1992, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- New Smyrna Bch, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N38767Hiller UH-12C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921221052829A
- Case key
- 33205
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's improper application of cyclic and collective pitch control during an autorotative landing.
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 commercial pilot/flight instructor (CFI) was demonstrating an autorotative landing to a commercial pilot who was receiving flight instruction. The CFI initiated the simulated emergency while on base leg. At about 75 feet AGL, the CFI conducted a deceleration and applied collective pitch at about 10 feet AGL, without leveling the helicopter with the cyclic control stick. The stinger, and tailrotor blades collided with the ground and separated from the helicopter along with the tailrotor gear box. The helicopter slid to the right and came to a complete stop on the skids in the grass.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N38767
- Reported as
- Hiller UH-12C
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 1037
- Airframe hours
- 6,874
- Engine
- Franklin 6V4-200-C33, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Vintage Props & Jets Inc.
- Registered owner
- Vintage Props & Jets Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 19, 1992 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- 34J
- Airport
- 34J · New Smyrna Beach Muni
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
- 22
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 666 total · 40 in this make and model · 418 as pilot in command · 46 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 7 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °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 N38767 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.