Bell 206A N11DL

25 August 1970 · Southampton, New York, United States · Minor injuries

Summary

On 25 August 1970 at about 22:45 local time, a Bell 206A registered N11DL, operated by DAN W.lufkin, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Southampton, New York, United States. 3 people were on board and one had minor injuries. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 25 August 1970 at 22:45
Classification: Accident
Location: Southampton, New York, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Bell 206A
Registration: N11DL
Category: Helicopter
Engines: 1
Operator: DAN W.lufkin
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Corporate/Executive
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Spring Valley Arpt → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 3-4496

People

1 person had minor injuries.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
3	0	0	1	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

PLT DVRTD ATTN TO TURN OFF LDG LITE AT CRITICAL PT DURG OVR WATER APCH TO POORLY LITED HELIPAD.

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 3-4496, 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.

Also in

United States 170,864 Bell 206 1,732 1970 4,980

Other Bell 206 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
28 May 1970	Bell 206-A N830JA	Deadhorse, Alaska, United States no coordinates	Anchorage Heli	Fatal	1
10 Oct 1970	Bell 206A N7865S	Anaktvk Pass, Alaska, United States no coordinates	Anchorage Heli	Minor injuries	-
31 Dec 1970	Bell 206A N8172J	Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States no coordinates	PA State Polic	No injuries	-
31 Dec 1970	Bell 206A N22DA	Bakersfield, California, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	1
19 Mar 1970	Bell 206A N1416W	Chignik, Alaska, United States no coordinates	K0DIAK Airways	No injuries	-
11 Jul 1970	Bell 206A N4726R	Bay Shore, New York, United States no coordinates	Island Helicop	No injuries	-

All 1,732 records for this type

Other accidents in this area

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
20 Jan 1970	Piper PA-28 N98044	Norwood, Massachusetts, United States no coordinates	E W Wiggins AI	No injuries	-
10 Mar 1970	Cessna 182 N71359	Albany, New York, United States no coordinates	McIntyre Aviat	No injuries	-
12 Apr 1970	N American SNJ-4 N6411D	Dothan, Alabama, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
8 Mar 1970	Cessna 182 N8862X	Ridgely, Maryland, United States no coordinates	Charles B Todd	No injuries	-
24 Jul 1970	Piper PA-28 N6505J	Torrance, California, United States no coordinates	Sperry Air SER	No injuries	-
12 Dec 1970	Aeronca 11AC N3247E	Butler, Georgia, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	2

All 170,864 records in United States