- Date
- August 16, 1964
- Place
- Redding, CA · REDDING, CA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N9357FHughes 269B
- Status
- Completed · report January 15, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 182700
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0724 64/8/16 NR.REDDING CALIF HUGHES 269B CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1115 N9357F PX- 0 0 2 DEMONSTRATION AGE 41, 7000 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 190 IN TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - HELIPAD TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION STALL: MUSH TAKEOFF: ABORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING FACTOR(S) WEATHER - HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE CLEAR UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE TEMPERATURE-F WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 70 CALM TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR NONE REMARKS- PILOT TRIED TO TAKEOFF UNDER DENSITY ALTITUDE EXCEEDING PERFORMANCE OF AIRCRAFT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9357F
- Reported as
- Hughes 269B
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Helipad
N9357FRegistration cancelled May 22, 2013 · Hughes 269BAirframe modelHughes 269BEngine modelLycoming I0360 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.
Other investigations on N9357F · 6
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