ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 352865
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| Date: | Sunday 8 August 1999 |
| Time: | 16:00 LT |
| Type: | Bell 47G-3B Soloy |
| Owner/operator: | Precision Air Svcs., Inc. |
| Registration: | N6712D |
| MSN: | 2203 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1957 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 13957 hours |
| Engine model: | Allison T63-700 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Selma, AL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
After a test flight following maintenance, the pilot/owner was positioning the helicopter onto a trailer, (tail forward) when the right landing skid slipped off and became hooked on the edge of the landing platform. Despite full forward, left cyclic, the rotorcraft continued backward until the main rotor blades collided with the aft part of the truck. The main rotor pitch control rods were removed and shipped to the NTSB Materials Laboratory for failure analysis, and although the rods were found to possess under specification tensile strength, all damage appeared to be consistent with impact damage.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to maintain the proper touchdown point during landing causing the landing skid to become entangled with the edge of the helipad platform and the resultant rollover and main rotor blade strike of the tow vehicle.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB MIA99LA217
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 09-Mar-2024 07:50 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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