Bell 47G3B N73246

17 July 1964 · Reserve N Mex, New Mexico, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 17 July 1964 at about 07:50 local time, a Bell 47G3B registered N73246 was involved in an accident during in flight near Reserve N Mex, New Mexico, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 17 July 1964 at 07:50
Classification: Accident
Location: Reserve N Mex, New Mexico, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Bell 47G3B
Registration: N73246
Category: Helicopter
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Fixed Base Operator
Purpose of flight: Charter Cargo-Domestic
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 2-0460

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	0	0	1

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

SLING HIT TAIL ROTOR ROTORCFT-FAILURE IMPROPERLY FABRICATED SLING.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 2-0460, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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