Accident · 2001-03-20
What the record says
- Event date
- 2001-03-20
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Fatal injury
- Aircraft
- Sikorsky SK-76A (N376AL)
- Operating rule
- Part 135
- Operator
- operator not named in the NTSB record
Probable cause
the passenger's inadvertent encounter with the rotating main rotor blades.
Source: NTSB case FTW01LA081Flight crew
Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.
Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.