Rhoades ROTORWAY EXEC 162F N25GR
30 September 2001 · Whitehouse, Ohio, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 30 September 2001 at about 21:50 local time, a Rhoades ROTORWAY EXEC 162F registered N25GR was involved in an accident near Whitehouse, Ohio, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.
The record
- Date
- at 21:50
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Whitehouse, Ohio, United States
- Nearest airport
- Private (NONE)
- Coordinates
- 41.5189, -83.8039
- Aircraft
- Rhoades ROTORWAY EXEC 162F
- Registration
- N25GR
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Not recorded
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Personal
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Whitehouse → Unknown
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- IAD01LA109
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Probable cause
The soft terrain condition, which resulted in the helicopter's rollover during the forced landing. A factor was the loss of engine power due to engine overtemperature for undetermined reasons.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
The pilot conducted a 20-minute flight over his farm and was on final approach to his landing pad when the engine started "missing and backfiring," and lost power at approximately 400 feet altitude. The pilot performed an autorotation to a soybean field, and as the helicopter touched down, it slid forward a few feet, then rolled over on its left side when a skid caught in the soft ground. Data downloaded from the FADEC revealed that for a 40-second period near the end of the flight, the engine temperature increased to 123 degrees centigrade, 22 degrees above the redline limit, before it stopped producing power. The FADEC was subsequently installed on a test cell engine, and the #1 and #2 ECUs were operated throughout the engine's full operational range, independently and together, without malfunction.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
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