Hiller Acft UH-12E N9743C

11 July 1973 · Bettles, Alaska, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 11 July 1973 at about 14:00 local time, a Hiller Acft UH-12E registered N9743C, operated by Merric, Inc., was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Bettles, Alaska, United States. 2 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 July 1973 at 14:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Bettles, Alaska, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Hiller Acft UH-12E
Registration: N9743C
Category: Helicopter
Engines: 1
Operator: Merric, Inc.
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Passenger Operations
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1854

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
2	0	0	0	2

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

ATTEMPTED LDG ON MTN RIDGE, WIND GUSTING TO 30K. GEOLOGICAL STUDIES.

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 3-1854, 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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