- Date
- September 15, 1982, 09:36 local (16:36 UTC)
- Place
- Spirit Lake, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Other
- Aircraft
- N513HAHiller-Soloy UH-12E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820915048639A
- Case key
- 72667
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Analysis
Pilot performed autorotation from 2000 feet to check RPM. At 200-300 feet when collective was added power loss occurred. Aircraft landed hard and severed tail boom. Logging support operations.
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.
Loss of engine power
Reason for occurrence undeterminedCause
Hard landing
Aircraft
- Registration
- N513HA
- Reported as
- Hiller-Soloy UH-12E
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 5013
- Airframe hours
- 3,123
- Engine
- Allison 250-C20, 420 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 133
- Operator
- Siller Brothers Inc.
- Registered owner
- Siller Brothers Inc.
- Departed
- Spirit Lake, WA
- Destination
- Spirit Lake, WA
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
- 36
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,825 total · 245 in this make and model · 848 as pilot in command · 148 in the last 90 days · 62 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Temperature
- 140 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PDX, 47 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.