- Date
- September 9, 1982, 11:10 local (16:10 UTC)
- Place
- Gardner, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N9078NRobinson R-22 HP
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 9, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820909044999A
- Case key
- 70810
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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
A non-cfi rated plt was giving instruction to an airplane plt that had logged a total of 6 hrs in helicopters. The student plt was lifting to a hover when a gust of wind struck the aircraft from the right side. The student pilot moved the cyclic pitch control to the left & the aircraft rolled over on its left side. The plt said that his effort to stop the roll was ineffective.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9078N
- Reported as
- Robinson R-22 HP
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 0283
- Airframe hours
- 63
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-B2C, 124 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Corporate Air
- Registered owner
- Corporate Air
- Departed
- K34 · Gardner, KS
- Destination
- K34 · Gardner, KS
- Airport
- K34 · Gardner Muni, runway 17, 3,440 × 110 ft, grass/turf
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
- 30
- Certificates
- Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,831 total · 35 in this make and model · 1,630 as pilot in command · 92 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 176 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TXD, 2 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.