Bell 206B N4FL

20 April 1974 · Hewitt, New Jersey, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 20 April 1974 at about 17:00 local time, a Bell 206B registered N4FL, operated by Lembo MacHine, was involved in an accident during the taxi phase of flight near Hewitt, New Jersey, 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: 20 April 1974 at 17:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Hewitt, New Jersey, United States
Nearest airport: Nairobi
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Bell 206B
Registration: N4FL
Category: Helicopter
Engines: 1
Operator: Lembo MacHine
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Corporate/Executive
Phase of flight: Taxi
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1155

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

HELIPAD 3-5DEG SLOPE. PURPOSE TO MOVE ACFT FM HELIPAD TO HANGAR.

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 3-1155, 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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