Accident · 2001-04-29
What the record says
- Event date
- 2001-04-29
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Minor injury
- Aircraft
- Hughes 369D (N50AP)
- Operating rule
- Part 91
- Operator
- operator not named in the NTSB record
Probable cause
the flight instructor's inadequate aircraft control during a practice autorotation which resulted in a hard landing.
Source: NTSB case IAD01TA051Flight 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.