- Date
- May 14, 1991, 13:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Grand Ronde, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N9506FHughes 269B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910514015769A
- Case key
- 41428
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Probable cause
The pilot inadvertently interfered with the controls.
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
At the end of an aerial application flight, the helicopter was landed near the loading truck. The pilot reported that after landing with the main rotor blades still idling, he leaned forward and inadvertently moved the cyclic. The main rotor blades tip path changed and struck the loading truck.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9506F
- Reported as
- Hughes 269B
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 87-0335
- Engine
- Lycoming HIO-360-B1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Precision Helicopters Inc.
- Registered owner
- Precision Helicopters Inc.
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
- 31
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 7,500 total · 3,500 in this make and model · 7,250 as pilot in command · 250 in the last 90 days · 135 in the last 30 days · 9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 45° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.