- Date
- January 4, 1985, 15:05 local (20:05 UTC)
- Place
- Newark, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N1106MHughes 500D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 35794
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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.
Propeller/rotor contact to person
Judgment - poorCause
Passenger briefing - inadequateFactor
Visual lookout - inadequateCause
Analysis
The right front seat passenger deplaned and walked rearward to retreive his luggage from the left rear seat of the helicopter during the cooling down stage of the engine shutdown. After deplanning he proceeded rearward under the main rotor wash. When rear of the tail rotor he walked into the rotating blades.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1106M
- Reported as
- Hughes 500D
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 610949D
- Airframe hours
- 47
- Engine
- Allison 250-C20B, 317 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- First Season Enterprises
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 14, 1984 · 47 hours before
- Departed
- JFK · Jamaica, NY
- Destination
- 01NJ · Newark, NJ
- Airport
- Helistop
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,000 total · 2,000 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EWR, 7 nm away