- Date
- October 12, 1969
- Place
- Hilo, HI · HILO, HI
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4019Bauch B-8-M
- Status
- Completed · report February 3, 1970
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 159904
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2877 69/10/12 HILO,HAWAII BAUCH B-8-M CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE UNK/NR, 61 TIME - 1541 N4019 PX- 0 0 0 PRACTICE TOTAL HOURS, 41 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - GEN LYMAN FLD DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION GEN LYMAN FLD LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISCELLANEOUS IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) ROTORCRAFT - FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS: OTHER MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - MATERIAL FAILURE FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEPARATION IN FLIGHT REMARKS- ROTR HIT PROP,RUDDER.CTL STICK FOUND BROKEN AT ATCHMNT TO XTUBE WHICH CTLD PUSH RODS TO ROTR HEAD.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4019
- Reported as
- Bauch B-8-M
- Category
- Gyroplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Gen Lyman Fld
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