Hiller 1100 N30VA

23 February 1979 · Blacksburg, Virginia, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 23 February 1979 at about 10:35 local time, a Hiller 1100 registered N30VA, operated by VA State Polic, was involved in an accident during in flight near Blacksburg, Virginia, 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: 23 February 1979 at 10:35
Classification: Accident
Location: Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Nearest airport: Vpi
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Hiller 1100
Registration: N30VA
Category: Helicopter
Engines: 1
Operator: VA State Polic
Operating rule: State-Public Aircraft
Purpose of flight: Police Patrol
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: IMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-0230

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

FLEW INTO FOG BANK.

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 3-0230, 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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