- Date
- September 15, 1967
- Place
- Shippensburg, PA · SHIPPENSBURG, PA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N866ZBell 47G-2
- Status
- Completed · report October 10, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 114889
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0523 67/9/15 SHIPPENSBURG,PA BELL 47G-2 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 38, 87 TOTAL TIME - 1330 N866Z PX- 0 0 2 BUSINESS HOURS, 55 IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SHIPPENBURG TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES IN FLIGHT: HOVERING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS FACTOR(S) WEATHER - UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE CLEAR UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F NONE 80 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 340 10 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR NONE REMARKS- PLT ENCOUNTERED GUSTY XWIND DURING PRELANDING HOVER.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N866Z
- Reported as
- Bell 47G-2
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Shippenburg
N866ZRegistered now · Bell-Carson 47G-SUPER C-4Airframe modelBell-Carson 47G-SUPER C-4Engine modelLycoming VO-435 series
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.
Other investigations on N866Z · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.