ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 209446
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| Date: | Friday 2 February 1996 |
| Time: | 09:00 |
| Type: |  Bell 47G-3B1 |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | VH-UTY |
| MSN: | 6548 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | 6km W of Caloundra, QLD -
 Australia
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | YCDR |
| YCDR | |
| Investigating agency: | BASI |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The helicopter was being used to spray fertiliser over a sugar cane crop, using an underslung spreading hopper. Soon after taking off with a new load, the engine failed and the pilot commenced a load dump. As the helicopter was within close proximity to the ground, he was unable to manoeuvre the helicopter away from the hopper during the autorotational landing. The helicopter came into contact with the hopper between the aft cluster and the lower tail boom support, bending these struts. The tail boom then flexed downward and the tail rotor blades struck the ground.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1996/aair/199600385/
https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/4931564/199600385.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 2 April 2004 | VH-UTY | 0 | Nudgee, QLD | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 17-Apr-2018 12:01 | Pineapple | Added |
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