ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 288181
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| Date: | Wednesday 18 August 2010 |
| Time: | 12:45 LT |
| Type: |  Schweizer 269C-1 |
| Owner/operator: | Bristow Academy Inc |
| Registration: | N1542D |
| MSN: | 0198 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1963 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3854 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming HIO-360 SER |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Titusville, Florida -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Titusville-Space Coast Regional Airport, FL (TIX/KTIX) |
| Titusville-Space Coast Regional Airport, FL (TIX/KTIX) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The flight instructor reported that during the helicopter instructional flight, hovering, straight-ahead, and 180-degree-turn autorotations were performed. The flight instructor's remedial actions typically included adjustment of pitch attitude to maintain the target airspeed, or collective adjustment to keep the rotor rpm in the normal operating range. During an autorotation with turn initiated by the student, the flight instructor took control of the helicopter but allowed the rotor rpm to decay below the lower limit. He adjusted collective and throttle, and initiated a decelerative flare to build rotor rpm, but the rotor rpm continued its decay. The flight instructor was unable to arrest the helicopter's descent, and the helicopter impacted the ground on the back of the skids, pitched forward and rolled over, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage, tailboom, and both the main and tail rotor systems. No preexisting mechanical anomalies were noted with the helicopter.
Probable Cause: The instructor's delayed remedial action, which resulted in a loss of rotor rpm and a hard landing.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ERA10CA432
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 30 June 1983 | N8835F | North Carolina Helicopters Inc | 0 | Gastonia, NC | |
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 04-Oct-2022 19:21 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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