- Date
- December 15, 1967
- Place
- Salinas, CA · SALINAS, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N8837FHughes 269A
- Status
- Completed · report May 1, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 112572
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-1090 67/12/15 SALINAS,CALIF HUGHES 269A CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS STUDENT, AGE 48, 2000 TIME - 1515 N8837F PX- 0 0 0 FERRY TOTAL HOURS, 145 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SALINAS TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: OBJECT TAXI: AERIAL TAXI, OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SUNGLARE REMARKS- REARWARD 3FT HOVER TAXI INTO THE SUN,TAIL-ROTOR STRUCK FUEL VENT PIPE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8837F
- Reported as
- Hughes 269A
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Salinas
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