Bensen B-8MW N6113

2 October 1970 · Long Beach, California, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 2 October 1970 at about 12:01 local time, a Bensen B-8MW registered N6113, operated by Kenneth Brock, was involved in an accident during in flight near Long Beach, California, 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: 2 October 1970 at 12:01
Classification: Accident
Location: Long Beach, California, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Bensen B-8MW
Registration: N6113
Category: Gyroplane
Engines: 1
Operator: Kenneth Brock
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Test
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → No Flt
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-4529

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

HI SPEED TAXI TEST OF SINGLE FLOAT ACFT. BECAME AIRBORNE, ACFT PITCHED FORWARD.UNABLE TO CTL. SANK.

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 3-4529, 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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