- Date
- April 8, 1969
- Place
- Dunbar, PA · DUNBAR, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1215WBell 47G2A1
- Status
- Completed · report June 10, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 191125
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0853 69/4/8 DUNBAR,PA BELL 47G2A1 CR- 0 0 1 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 32, 3080 TIME - 1350 N1215W PX- 0 0 0 FIRE CONTROL TOTAL HOURS, 202 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: OBJECT LANDING: POWER-ON LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) TERRAIN - HIDDEN OBSTRUCTIONS REMARKS- T/R,T/R SHAFT DAMAGED BY GRND STRIKE WHEN L SKID HIT HIDDEN ROCK CAUSING ACFT TO PITCH UP.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1215W
- Reported as
- Bell 47G2A1
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
N1215WRegistration cancelled Sep 3, 2014 · Bell 47G-2A-1Airframe modelBell 47G-2A-1Engine modelLycoming VO-540 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 N1215W · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.