- Date
- April 11, 1987, 11:35 local (18:35 UTC)
- Place
- Yakima, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8313FHughes 369HS
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 5, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870411009259A
- Case key
- 40611
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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.
Analysis
Six miles from the airport, at cruise, the engine ceased operating due to fuel exhaustion. The plt had noticed the low fuel warning light on 10 minutes prior to the engine failure but elected to continue his flight. Autorotation was made from 1,000 feet AGL and at completion of the ground run the main rotor blades struck the tail boom and severed it.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8313F
- Reported as
- Hughes 369HS
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 360799S
- Airframe hours
- 2,508
- Engine
- Allison 250-C20, 278 horsepower, turbo shaft
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Berkley Structures, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Berkley Structures, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 5, 1987 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- Redmond, WA
- Destination
- YKM · Yakima, 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
- 38
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8,102 total · 108 in this make and model · 3,523 as pilot in command · 92 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 21 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 13,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 36 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.