- Date
- December 28, 1973
- Place
- Queets, WA · QUEETS, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N28875Hiller UH-12E
- Status
- Completed · report April 2, 1974
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19731228042069A
- Case key
- 187362
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4067 73/12/28 QUEETS,WASH HILLER UH-12E CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 25, 1702 TIME - 1230 N28875 PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 305 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION QUEETS,WASH LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION IN FLIGHT: OTHER ROLL OVER LANDING: POWER-OFF AUTOROTATIVE LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - MISCELLANEOUS: POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- ENG FAILED FOR REASON NOT DETERMINED LANDED IN UNPREPARED AREA.ACFT OVERTURNED AND CAUGHT FIRE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N28875
- Reported as
- Hiller UH-12E
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N28875 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.
NTSB SEA87FA106Accident · 1 fatalField investigationFinal reportShelton, WAThe pilot was properly certificated for the flight; however, due to operator insurance restrictions, all prior commercial flights had required the owner/operator to accompany this pilot, therefore this was the pilot's first commercial flight as sole pilot.…NTSB SEA81DYE11Accident · No injuriesClosedBeaver, WA