- Date
- June 29, 1986, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lehighton, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N1042CHiller 12C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860629034699A
- Case key
- 30364
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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.
Analysis
The pilot of the hiller 12C reported an overheated engine followed by an engine failure. During the forced landing the main rotor flexed and cut the tail boom off the the aircraft. The aircraft was examined. 10 oz. Of a liquid was found in the fuel system. 7 oz. Was fuel and 3 oz. Was water. The reported engine overheat and engine failure could not be reproduced. The engine ran satisfactorly. The pilot and passenger were uninjured in the accident which occurred in daylight. The plt/owner had habit of not refueling aft flts thus leaving tks less than full and susceptible to water condesation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1042C
- Reported as
- Hiller 12C
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 846
- Airframe hours
- 200
- Engine
- Franklin 6A-335-B1, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Albert Finkelstein
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1985 · 60 hours before
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
- 65
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 5,000 total · 50 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N1042C · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.