- Date
- June 11, 1990, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Shell Knob, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N7089JBell B47G-5
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900611028359A
- Case key
- 34995
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Probable cause
Visual outlook not maintained by the pilot in command.
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 taking aerial photos of a boat on a lake, the commercial pilot said that he was blinded by the sun and inadvertently collided with unmarked power lines. The pilot was able to fly the damaged helicopter to nearby level terrain and land. Additional damage occurred to the airframe during the shut down, due to imbalance of the main rotor.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7089J
- Reported as
- Bell B47G-5
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 25032
- Engine
- Lycoming VO-435-B1A, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Neodesha Helicopters Flying
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- NONE · Shell Knob, MO
- Airport
- NONE
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
- 54
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 4,372 total · 685 in this make and model · 4,158 as pilot in command · 229 in the last 90 days · 57 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °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 N7089J · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.