Aerospatial AS-350 N802DB

13 December 1980 · Cameron, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. · No injuries

Summary

On 13 December 1980 at about 09:26 local time, a Aerospatial AS-350 registered N802DB, operated by Horizon Helico, was involved in an accident during in flight near Cameron, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.. 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: 13 December 1980 at 09:26
Classification: Accident
Location: Cameron, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Aerospatial AS-350
Registration: N802DB
Category: Helicopter
Engines: 1
Operator: Horizon Helico
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Passenger Operations
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Cameron, la → High Island 571 Rig
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-3736

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

LARGE HARDNESS DIFFERENCE FD BETWEEN MALE & FEMALE SPLINES.CAST ALUMINUM FLOAT BRCKT FAILED ON T/D

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 3-3736, 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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Other Aerospatial AS-350 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
7 Jan 1981	Aerospatial AS-350 N3605Z	Garden City, New York, United States no coordinates	Island Helicop	Minor injuries	-
31 May 1981	Aerospatial AS-350 N3607G	Cameron, Louisiana, United States no coordinates	Petroleum Heli	Fatal	1

Other accidents in this area

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
23 Aug 1980	Piper PA-23 N5076Y	Little Rag Is, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	-	Fatal	1
12 Nov 1980	Bell 206B N10696	Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	Helicopter AVN	Fatal	4
21 Nov 1980	Aero Comdr 520 N515E	Grt Inagua, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	-	Fatal	2
11 Jan 1980	Cessna 441 N441NC	Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	Nichols Constr	Fatal	2
12 Sep 1980	Lockheed L1011 N710DA	Nassau, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	Delta Air Lines, Inc.	Serious injuries	-
17 Oct 1980	Boeing 707 N8406	Kingston, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	American Airlines, Inc.	Serious injuries	-

All 136 records in Atlantic Ocean North Lat.