- Date
- November 24, 1985, 14:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Brooks, OR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N58181Hughes 269C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851124058099A
- Case key
- 40336
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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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(total) - mech failure/malf
Engine assembly,cylinder - failure,totalCause
Hard landing
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
A total loss of power occurred due to the number 4 cylinder failing. A tail boom strike occurred during a hard landing in a parking lot, severing the tail boom.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N58181
- Reported as
- Hughes 269C
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 480682
- Airframe hours
- 4,650
- Engine
- Lycoming HIO-360 SER, 190 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ronnie T. Walters
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 29, 1985 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- RBG · Roseburg, OR
- Destination
- PDX · Portlande, OR
N58181Registration cancelled Feb 1, 2013 · Hughes 269CAirframe modelHughes 269CEngine modelLycoming HIO-360 series
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
- 46
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 785 total · 500 in this make and model · 680 as pilot in command · 120 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 25 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.