ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 24205
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| Date: | Friday 28 May 1999 |
| Time: | 17:50 |
| Type: |  Bell 206B-3 JetRanger III |
| Owner/operator: | Eurotranslation SaRL |
| Registration: | F-GFDN |
| MSN: | 0973 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1973 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Roberval, Oise, Picardy -
 France
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Grand Fresnoy, Oise, Picardy |
| Creil-Senlis, Oise, Picardy | |
| Investigating agency: | BEA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Ex-:N18090, then G-BARX: Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed 28 May 1999 at Roberval, Oise, Picardy. Ten minutes after takeoff from Grand Fresnoy, cruising at 1,200 feet on the VFR route north Creil-Senlis, turbine helicopter 206 F-GFDN suddenly starts to idle. At the same time, the indicator "ENG.OUT" lights, indicating an engine failure, and the alarm "LOW ROTOR RPM" sounds signaling a low rotor. Flying at that time a wooded area, the pilot takes a heading to the east, and performs an autorotation into a wheat field.
During the landing, the tips of the skids began sinking into wheat plants. To avoid this, the helicopter tilted forward, and the pilot activated the cyclic pitch control backwards. During this action, the main rotor blades cut the tail boom at the rear stabilizer. The helicopter rotates 180 degrees to the left and stopped on the skids.
The BEA report notes the damage to the helicopter as: "cut tail boom, tail unit destroyed, torn and distorted blades, landing skids and enclosures damaged". As a result, the registration F-GFDN was cancelled on 19 October 1999 as "destroyed"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. https://www.bea.aero/docspa/1999/f-dn990528/htm/f-dn990528.html
2. http://www.bea.aero/docspa/1999/f-dn990528/pdf/f-dn990528.pdf
3. http://web.archive.org/web/20120928112413/http://www.immat.aviation-civile.gouv.fr:80/immat/servlet/aeronef_liste.html
4. http://www.griffin-helicopters.co.uk/accidentdetails.aspx?accidentkey=3982
5. http://rotordefrance.free.fr/f-gfdn.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 10-Apr-2015 15:21 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 10-Apr-2015 15:27 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative] |
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