- Date
- September 27, 1964
- Place
- Bakersfield, CA · BAKERSFIELD, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N970BBell 47G
- Status
- Completed · report January 27, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 184142
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0779 64/9/27 BAKERSFIELD CALIF BELL 47G CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 45, 11600 TIME - 0930 N970B PX- 0 0 0 FERRY TOTAL HOURS, 405 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE HARD LANDING LANDING: POWER-OFF AUTOROTATIVE LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - ENGINE STRUCTURE: VALVE ASSEMBLIES MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - FATIGUE FRACTURE PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER LEVEL OFF PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - PRECAUTIONARY LANDING OFF AIRPORT REMARKS- FATIGUE FAILURE EXHAUST ROCKER ARM BOLT NO3 CYL
Aircraft
- Registration
- N970B
- Reported as
- Bell 47G
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
N970BRegistration cancelled Nov 26, 2014 · Bell 47GAirframe modelBell 47GEngine modelFranklin 6V-335 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 N970B · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.
NTSB MIA93FA121Accident · 2 fatalField investigationFinal reportParker, FLthe misjudgement of the distance by the nonrated pilot-in-command and subsequent collision with a tree. Contributing to the accident was the lack of helicopter experience of the pilot-in-command.NTSB MKC68A0049Accident · No injuriesClosedOnawa, IA