Accident · 1998-01-06

What the record says

Event date

1998-01-06

Event type

Accident

Highest injury level

Minor injury

Aircraft

Bell 206B (N333FC)

Operating rule

Part 91

Operator

operator not named in the NTSB record

Probable cause

The pilot's failure to maintain a safe altitude and a visual lookout while operating under a special visual flight rules clearance in instrument flight rule conditions, which resulted in the helicopter colliding with trees. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to obtain an adequate weather briefing for conditions at his destination, his continued visual flight rules into instrument flight rule conditions, and his failure to reset the altimeter to the current setting.

Flight 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.