- Date
- October 7, 1965
- Place
- Bishop, CA · BISHOP, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N266Sikorsky UH34D
- Status
- Completed · report April 20, 1966
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 175883
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0983 65/10/7 BISHOP CALIF SIKORSKY UH34D CR- 0 0 2 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 32, 4600 TIME - 0740 N266 PX- 0 0 0 EXPERIMENTATION TOTAL HOURS, 176 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - BISHOP TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION HARD LANDING LANDING: POWER-OFF AUTOROTATIVE LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: POWER-OFF AUTOROTATIVE LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT-IMPROPERLY EXECUTED AUTOROTATIVE LANDING
Aircraft
- Registration
- N266
- Reported as
- Sikorsky UH34D
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Bishop
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