- Date
- July 20, 1982, 13:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Creswell, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8694FHughes 369D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 20, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820720030719A
- Case key
- 70371
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Analysis
The pilot was practicing hovering autorotations and quick stops. He stated that after about six good quick stops, he made a tail low landing and the main rotor blades flexed into the tail boom.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Hard landing
Autorotation - performed
Distance - misjudgedCause
Altitude - misjudgedCause
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8694F
- Reported as
- Hughes 369D
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 275D
- Airframe hours
- 1,226
- Engine
- Allison 250-C2OB, 375 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mazama Timber Products Company
- Registered owner
- Mazama Timber Products Company
- Departed
- OR58 · Creswell, OR
- Destination
- OR58 · Creswell, OR
- Airport
- OR58 · Mazama Newport, runway 20, 50 × 50 ft, grass/turf
N8694FRegistration cancelled Jul 11, 2001 · Hughes Helicopters HUGHES 369DAirframe modelHughes Helicopters HUGHES 369D
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 40
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,938 total · 3,938 in this make and model · 3,467 as pilot in command · 84 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 167 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.