- Date
- June 6, 1966
- Place
- San Francisco, CA · SAN FRANCISCO, CA
- Injuries
- 8 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N4606GSikorsky S-61N
- Status
- Completed · report October 21, 1966
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 171451
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0023 66/6/6 SAN FRANCISCO CAL SIKORSKY S-61N CR- 0 0 3 SCHED DOM PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 1355 N4606G PX- 0 0 5 28, 2070 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 1255 IN TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SAN FRANCISCO INT OPERATOR - SAN FRANCISCO AND OAKLAND HELICOPTER AIRLINES TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: BUILDING(S) TAXI: GROUND TAXI, OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) COPILOT - MISJUDGED CLEARANCE PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT REMARKS- STRUCK TWA JETWAY GATE.DEBRIS DAMAGED 2 TWA BOEING 707S, 1 SFO SIKORSKY S-61.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4606G
- Reported as
- Sikorsky S-61N
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- San Francisco Int
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.
Other investigations on N4606G · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.