Schweizer 269D N4767

Summary

On 29 March 2005 at about 00:30 local time, a Schweizer 269D registered N4767 was involved in an accident near Atlantic Ocean. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

29 March 2005 at 00:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Atlantic Ocean

Coordinates

37.6354, -72.8614

Aircraft

Schweizer 269D

Registration

N4767

Category

Helicopter

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

La Romana → San Juan

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Dusk

NTSB number

MIA05LA088

1 person died.

An inflight collision with the ocean for undetermined reasons.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The accident helicopter departed La Romana, the Dominican Republic, about 1850, on March 28, 2005, en route to Puerto Rico and it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 2030. On March 28, 2005, U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue assets found debris floating in the Mona Passage, in the Atlantic Ocean, which the pilot's son later positively identified as belonging to his father. Records indicated that the accident pilot held an FAA private pilot certificate with a rotorcraft-helicopter rating. At his last application for an FAA third class medical certificate on August 10, 2004, he reported having accumulated 1,290 hours of total flight experience. He did not possess an instrument rating.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.