Sikorsky S-61L N620PA

11 April 1972 · Jamaica, New York, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 11 April 1972 at about 15:02 local time, a Sikorsky S-61L registered N620PA, operated by New York Airways, Inc., was involved in an accident during the taxi phase of flight near Jamaica, New York, United States. 20 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: 11 April 1972 at 15:02
Classification: Accident
Location: Jamaica, New York, United States
Nearest airport: Jfk Intenational
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Sikorsky S-61L
Registration: N620PA
Category: Helicopter
Engines: 2
Operator: New York Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: Taxi
Route: S → Newark, Nj
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 1-0021

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
20	0	0	0	20

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

RAMP AGENT WAS DIRECTING ACFT FROM PARKING AREA.MAIN ROTOR HIT TAIL ROTOR OF N618PA, DMG NOT RPRTD.

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 1-0021, 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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