- Date
- January 12, 1966
- Place
- Big Fork, MN · BIG FORK, MN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8924FHughes 269A
- Status
- Completed · report April 28, 1966
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 174497
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0007 66/1/12 BIG FORK MINN HUGHES 269A CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1125 N8924F PX- 0 0 1 DEMONSTRATION AGE 47, 18000 TOTAL DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 HOURS, 300 IN TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - BIG FORK MUNICIPL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ROLL OVER LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT FACTOR(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN PILOT IN COMMAND - SPATIAL DISORIENTATION PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND REMARKS- PILOT ATTEMPTED TO CONTINUE WITH NO VISIBILITY IN SNOW BEING BLOWN UP BY ROTOR WASH
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8924F
- Reported as
- Hughes 269A
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Big Fork Municipl
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Other investigations on N8924F · 2
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