- Date
- June 19, 1964
- Place
- Nacogdoches, TX · NACOGDOCHES, TX
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N10142Bensen B8M
- Status
- Completed · report July 6, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 183710
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-1006 64/6/19 NACOGDOCHES TEX BENSEN B8M CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE 40, 88 TOTAL TIME - 1735 N10142 PX- 0 0 0 PRACTICE HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 UNK/NR INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - DEL RENTZEL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION PROPELLER/ROTOR FAILURE: MAIN ROTOR IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) ROTORCRAFT - ROTOR ASSEMBLIES: MAIN ROTOR HEAD ASSEMBLIES MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - FATIGUE FRACTURE PERSONNEL-IMPROPERLY FABRICATED ROTOR HEAD SPINDLE FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEPARATION IN FLIGHT REMARKS- DRAWING SPECS NOT FOLLOWED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N10142
- Reported as
- Bensen B8M
- Category
- Helicopter, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Del Rentzel