Bell 206B N49667

28 December 1976 · Gulf of Mexico, Other-International Waters · No injuries

Summary

On 28 December 1976 at about 07:35 local time, a Bell 206B registered N49667, operated by Petroleum Heli, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Gulf of Mexico, Other-International Waters. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 28 December 1976 at 07:35
Classification: Accident
Location: Gulf of Mexico, Other-International Waters
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Bell 206B
Registration: N49667
Category: Helicopter
Engines: 1
Operator: Petroleum Heli
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Corporate/Executive
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Patterson, la → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-3748

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	0	0	1

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

APPROACH TO OFFSHORE OIL RIG.FLOATS NOT INFLATED.

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 3-3748, 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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