Enstrom F-28A N9569

15 June 1978 · Ft Washington, Pennsylvania, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 15 June 1978 at about 16:15 local time, a Enstrom F-28A registered N9569 was involved in an accident during in flight near Ft Washington, Pennsylvania, 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: 15 June 1978 at 16:15
Classification: Accident
Location: Ft Washington, Pennsylvania, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Enstrom F-28A
Registration: N9569
Category: Helicopter
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1885

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

JAM NUT P/N AN316-5 BECAME LOOSE.BELT TENSION ASSEMBLY DISCONNECTED.PWR LOSS TO ROTOR SYS.

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 3-1885, 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.

Also in

United States 170,864 Enstrom F-28A 130 1978 4,698

Other Enstrom F-28A accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
9 Feb 1978	Enstrom F-28A N240Q	Westwood, Massachusetts, United States no coordinates	Rodman Helicop	No injuries	-
20 Sep 1978	Enstrom F-28A N612B	North Chicago, Illinois, United States no coordinates	-	Minor injuries	-
12 Oct 1978	Enstrom F-28A N257Q	Bakertown, Pennsylvania, United States no coordinates	Better Mining	Fatal	2
14 Jun 1978	Enstrom F-28A N9250	Vero Beach, Florida, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
14 Feb 1979	Enstrom F-28A N9082	Oxnard, California, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
18 Aug 1977	Enstrom F-28A N286Q	Lubbock, Texas, United States no coordinates	El Monte Fligh	No injuries	-

All 130 records for this type

Other accidents in this area

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
14 Apr 1978	Cessna 150L N1531Q	Hallandale, Mississippi, United States no coordinates	Boardman Aviat	Serious injuries	-
3 Jun 1978	Cessna 310Q N7600Q	Destin, Florida, United States no coordinates	Araguel Sander	No injuries	-
29 Apr 1978	Beechcraft S-35 N7971K	Audubon, Iowa, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	5
29 May 1978	Piper PA-23 N5850Y	Longdale, Oklahoma, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	1
11 Aug 1978	Bell 47G4A N473FW	New Rochelle, New York, United States no coordinates	Island Helicop	No injuries	-
23 Apr 1978	Piper PA-31 N49MC	Arlington, Indiana, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	9

All 170,864 records in United States