- Date
- November 28, 1986, 09:10 local (14:10 UTC)
- Place
- Jamesburg, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N7579Bell 47-G2A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 30477
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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 CFI and private student were practicing lifting off to a hover. The CFI allowed the student to preform one or two under supervision and they were satisfactory. The CFI then allosed the student to start preforming the manuevers. The CFI heard the right skid snap and as he was attempting to apply left cyclic and lower the collective the helicopter rolled over and was destroyed by fire, both CFI and student suffered burns.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7579
- Reported as
- Bell 47-G2A
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 2659
- Airframe hours
- 6,512
- Engine
- Lycoming VO435-A1F, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Cordoba Helicopter Enterprise
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 20, 1986 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- Hightstown, NJ
- Destination
- Hightstown, NJ
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
- 44
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 8,500 total · 5,000 in this make and model · 7,514 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 1 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point -0 °F
Other investigations on N7579 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.