Sikorsky UH34D N266

7 October 1965 · Bishop Calif, California, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 7 October 1965 at about 07:40 local time, a Sikorsky UH34D registered N266, operated by US Navy, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Bishop Calif, California, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 7 October 1965 at 07:40
Classification: Accident
Location: Bishop Calif, California, United States
Nearest airport: Bishop
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Sikorsky UH34D
Registration: N266
Category: Helicopter
Engines: 1
Operator: US Navy
Operating rule: Federal-Public Aircraft
Purpose of flight: Experimentation
Phase of flight: Landing
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 2-0983

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
2	0	0	0	2

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

PILOT-IMPROPERLY EXECUTED AUTOROTATIVE LANDING

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 2-0983, 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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