ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 370287
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| Date: | Tuesday 6 June 2006 |
| Time: | 07:55 LT |
| Type: |  Bell 206L-1 |
| Owner/operator: | Air Logistics |
| Registration: | N272M |
| MSN: | 45365 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 10806 hours |
| Engine model: | Allison 250-C30 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Serious incident |
| Location: | South Pass 57, GM -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Gulf of Mexico |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The helicopter departed its company base for an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, where it was scheduled to pick up three passengers with the intent of transporting them around on daily platform checks. The pilot asked his passengers if they had any questions on aircraft safety. He also said he had briefed and flown with these passengers before, and that the passengers indicated that they had no questions regarding safety or emergency equipment. The pilot landed on the next platform's helideck with the nose of the helicopter into the wind and towards the northeast stairs. With the helicopter idling, two of the passengers exited the helicopter and proceeded down the stairs located on the northeast side. The oil platform's helideck is a 40 foot by 40 foot landing area with two stairways, one located on the northeast side and the another stairway on the southwest side. After approximately 5 minutes, one of the passengers reappeared from the northeast stairway and approached the helicopter from the front. The remaining passenger then entered the helideck from the southwest stairway, approached the helicopter from the rear and walked into the idling helicopter's tail-rotor.
Probable Cause: The passenger's failure to follow procedures associated with operations in the vicinity of the helicopter and his failure to see/avoid the tail rotor of the helicopter.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB DFW06IA151
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 1 November 2009 | N272M | Rotorcraft Leasing Company Llc | 0 | In GOM off Galveston, TX | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 25-Mar-2024 09:03 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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