Bell 47G N940B

16 June 1965 · Nassau Bahamas, Other-Foreign Countries · No injuries

Summary

On 16 June 1965 at about 12:05 local time, a Bell 47G registered N940B, operated by Bahamas Chart, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Nassau Bahamas, Other-Foreign Countries. 3 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 16 June 1965 at 12:05
Classification: Accident
Location: Nassau Bahamas, Other-Foreign Countries
Nearest airport: Oakes Airport
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Bell 47G
Registration: N940B
Category: Helicopter
Engines: 1
Operator: Bahamas Chart
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Aerial Mapping/Photography
Phase of flight: Landing
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 6-0001

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
3	0	0	0	3

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

PILOT FLEW FLOAT EQUIPPED HELICOPTER WITH KNOWN MALFUNCTIONING ENGINE AT HEIGHT OF 50 FT.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No position. The source record has no latitude and longitude, and it names no place or airport that could be looked up, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 6-0001, 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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Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
2 Feb 1965	Beechcraft AT-11 N52933	Freeport Bahamas, Other-Foreign Countries not on the map	-	Fatal	1
8 Feb 1965	Beechcraft A-35 N1875A	Caicos Is Bahamas, Other-Foreign Countries not on the map	-	No injuries	-
3 Mar 1965	Cessna 195 N4385N	Isabella Dr, Other-Foreign Countries not on the map	-	Minor injuries	-
27 Mar 1965	Cessna 172 N2056Y	Andros Is Bahamas, Other-Foreign Countries not on the map	Flight Line	No injuries	-
10 Apr 1965	Cessna 172 N8779B	Andros Is Bahamas, Other-Foreign Countries not on the map	-	No injuries	-
12 Apr 1965	Grumman G-44 N95J	Nassau Bahamas, Other-Foreign Countries not on the map	Debian Avtn	No injuries	-

All 247 records in Other-Foreign Countries