ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 270786
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| Date: | Tuesday 14 December 2021 |
| Time: | 11:00 LT |
| Type: |  Hughes 269A |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | N8827F |
| MSN: | 43-0188 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1963 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | N/W of Crowley, TX -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Crowley, TX |
| Crowley, TX | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The flight instructor reported that the student pilot was receiving flight instruction in preparation for a helicopter hover endorsement. The flight instructor and student pilot planned to practice hovers with pedal turns to experience wind effect from varying directions. The winds at the time were about 12 kts from the south. While in a hover and making a turn to the northeast, the wind increased, and the helicopter quickly climbed to 75 feet agl. The flight instructor told the student pilot to position the helicopter into the wind and descend. As the student applied left pedal input, the instructor noticed the helicopter started to rotate toward the right. The instructor immediately took the flight controls and continued to apply full left pedal input while 'slightly' lowering the collective and using the cyclic to move the helicopter into undisturbed air. The flight instructor reported that he suspected a loss of tail rotor effectiveness and performed a hovering autorotation to land on a field. The helicopter impacted the terrain upright. The helicopter sustained substantial damage to the main rotor blades and fuselage. A postaccident examination of the helicopter revealed no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the helicopter that would have precluded normal operation.
Probable Cause: The student pilot's encounter with a loss of tail rotor effectiveness during hover, and the flight instructor's delayed remedial action that resulted in an emergency landing and impact with terrain.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CEN22LA077
FAA register: https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=N8827F
Location
Media:
No injuries after helicopter crashes in Tarrant County https://t.co/z64BK2gXMy #bladeslapper pic.twitter.com/y6FJ4BoBJ9
— Blade Slapper (@bladeslapper) December 15, 2021
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Dec-2021 02:47 | Geno | Added |
| 16-Dec-2021 03:44 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Dec-2021 14:13 | Aerossurance | Updated [Embed code, Narrative] |
| 16-Dec-2021 22:48 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 17-Dec-2021 01:51 | johnwg | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 17-Dec-2021 11:59 | Captain Adam | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-Dec-2021 18:25 | johnwg | Updated [Location, Source] |
| 24-Jun-2022 13:11 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category, Accident report] |
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