- Date
- April 12, 1975
- Place
- Stormville, NY · STORMVILLE, NY
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N1580Scorpion I
- Status
- Completed · report August 1, 1975
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19750412014049A
- Case key
- 201276
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1461 75/4/12 STORMVILLE,NY SCORPION I CR- 0 1 0 MISCELLANEOUS PRIVATE, AGE 42, 262 TIME - 1300 N1580 PX- 0 0 0 EXPERIMENTATION TOTAL HOURS, 31 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - STORMVILLE DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION STORMVILLE,NY LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- PILOT SAID THERE WAS SUDDEN VIOLENT LATERAL VIBRATION,HIGH ROTOR RPM AND LOSS OF LIFT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1580
- Reported as
- Scorpion I
- Category
- Helicopter, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Stormville
N1580Registration cancelled Apr 11, 2011 · Graff SCORPIONAirframe modelGraff SCORPIONEngine modelEvinrude STARFLITE
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N1580 · 1
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