Bell 47G3B1 N1135W

4 June 1974 · Stratford, Washington, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 4 June 1974 at about 11:15 local time, a Bell 47G3B1 registered N1135W, operated by U.s.geodetic S, was involved in an accident during in flight near Stratford, Washington, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 4 June 1974 at 11:15
Classification: Accident
Location: Stratford, Washington, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Bell 47G3B1
Registration: N1135W
Category: Helicopter
Engines: 1
Operator: U.s.geodetic S
Operating rule: Federal-Public Aircraft
Purpose of flight: Aerial Survey
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Ephrata, Wash → Local
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1901

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

FLEW INTO PARTIALLY OBSCURED WIRES OVR LAKE.

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 3-1901, 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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