El Tomcat 47 N4227A

19 June 1974 · Zafra, Oklahoma, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 19 June 1974 at about 20:00 local time, a El Tomcat 47 registered N4227A, operated by Williams Flyin, was involved in an accident during in flight near Zafra, Oklahoma, 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: 19 June 1974 at 20:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Zafra, Oklahoma, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: El Tomcat 47
Registration: N4227A
Category: Helicopter
Engines: 1
Operator: Williams Flyin
Operating rule: Aerial Applicator
Purpose of flight: Aerial Application
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Dusk
NTSB number: 3-2808

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

NO ENG MLFNCTN FND DRNG INVSTGTN

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 3-2808, 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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