- Date
- August 14, 1974
- Place
- Cook, WA · COOK, WA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 12 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N4763RBell 205A-1
- Status
- Completed · report March 6, 1975
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19740814043479A
- Case key
- 138633
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4232 74/8/14 COOK,WASH BELL 205A-1 CR- 0 0 2 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 29, 1750 TIME - 1930 N4763R PX- 0 1 10 CONSTRUCTION TOTAL HOURS, 1400 IN DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION COOK,WASH LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION TAKEOFF: VERTICAL COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: CONTROLLED LANDING: POWER-OFF AUTOROTATIVE LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - FUEL SYSTEM: OTHER MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - MATERIAL FAILURE MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - FUEL STARVATION FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- LNDD ON TOP OF LOGS ON MTN SLOPE.FUEL SYS MALFUNCTION FOR UNDET REASON.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4763R
- Reported as
- Bell 205A-1
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.