Bell B-47J2 N8457E

29 April 1965 · Port Heiden Alas, Alaska, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 29 April 1965 at about 11:00 local time, a Bell B-47J2 registered N8457E, operated by ERA Helicopter, was involved in an accident during in flight near Port Heiden Alas, Alaska, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 29 April 1965 at 11:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Port Heiden Alas, Alaska, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Bell B-47J2
Registration: N8457E
Category: Helicopter
Engines: 1
Operator: ERA Helicopter
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Other
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 2-0237

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

AIRCRAFT BEING USED TO RIGHT NOSED DOWN PA-18. MISC-IMPROPERLY FABRICATED SLING FAILED TO RELEASE

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 2-0237, 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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