- Date
- September 2, 1989, 12:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Ozark, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N182JRBell 47G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 11, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890902033339A
- Case key
- 34861
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Probable cause
The failure of the dual student to properly flare during an autorotative landing resulting in a hard landing and partial failure of the right skid. The CFI also failed to properly monitor the student's actions on the flight 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
While practicing autorotation landings, the tail boom began to rise after touchdown which resulted in the helicopter rolling to the right and the main rotor blades striking the terrain. The helicopter came to rest on it's right side. Accident investigation revealed that the right skid, forward of the front upright had fractured. The broken portion of the skid had cut a groove in the grass a distance of about 2 feet before imbedding itself, causing the helicopter to stop. The forward inertia bought the tail boom up which resulted in the rotor strike and roll over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N182JR
- Reported as
- Bell 47G
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 22
- Airframe hours
- 10,707
- Engine
- Franklin 6V-335-53, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Dick Hill Int. Flight School
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 13, 1989 · 76 hours before
- Departed
- 2K2 · Ozark, MO
- Airport
- 2K2 · Air Park South, runway 17, 800 × 100 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
- 47
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 379 total · 160 in this make and model · 265 as pilot in command · 74 in the last 90 days · 33 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,200 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Observed at
- SGF, 10 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.
Other investigations on N182JR · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.