Bell 206L N5018N
9 October 1979 · Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 9 October 1979 at about 07:33 local time, a Bell 206L registered N5018N, operated by Trans GAS Pipe, was involved in an accident during in flight near Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.
The record
- Date
- at 07:33
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
- Coordinates
- Not recorded
- Aircraft
- Bell 206L
- Registration
- N5018N
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Trans GAS Pipe
- Operating rule
- Corporate/Executive
- Purpose of flight
- Corporate/Executive
- Phase of flight
- In Flight
- Route
- S → Sulfur, la
- Aircraft damage
- Destroyed
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Daylight
- NTSB number
- 3-2937
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
NO.1 TURBINE, PN 6898991, SN 51956, FAILED.ACFT DESTROYED BY FIRE AFTER SAFE LNDG.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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