- Date
- September 22, 1982, 17:20 local (21:20 UTC)
- Place
- New York, NY
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N2772HBell 222
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 22, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820922048529A
- Case key
- 72002
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The helicopter (hel) was being loaded with the engines running. The flt crew were at the ctls when the acdnt occurred. Initially, 4 paxs were escorted to the hel by a customer svc agent. As the 4 boarded, the agent retrieved their carry on baggage. Aft they had boarded (on the lft side), the agent left the door open, anticipating a 5th pax. He then carried the baggage around to the rgt side & loaded it in the baggage compartment. Aft loading the baggage, he came back arnd to the lft side & helped load the 5th pax that a 2nd agent had escorted, then took a psn by the left main gear. Reportedly, the 1st 4 paxs were still on board when the 5th pax boarded. Aft he was seated & secured, the 2nd agent leaned fwd to the coplt's door to inform him of the adnl wt. After a brief conversation with the coplt, she turnedback to close the pax door. At aprx that time, another hel plt saw a pax (1 of the 1st 4) walking twd the tail & startedto transmit a warning to the plt. Bfr the call was completed, the pax walked into the tail rotor.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2772H
- Reported as
- Bell 222
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 47024
- Airframe hours
- 857
- Engine
- Lycoming LTS-101-650C, 618 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Omniflight Airways, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.
- Departed
- New York, NY
- Destination
- Jamaica, NY
- Airport
- Pan Am Metroport E.
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
- 33
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 5,620 total · 180 in this make and model · 4,954 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,800 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 147 °F
- Observed at
- LGA, 4 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.