Accident · 2000-12-18

NTSB case NYC01LA059 · Aerospatiale SA365-N1 · Part 91

What the record says

Event date: 2000-12-18
Event type: Accident
Highest injury level: Serious injury
Aircraft: Aerospatiale SA365-N1 (N89SM)
Operating rule: Part 91
Operator: CORPORATE JETS INC Operator named in NTSB report
Operated by (per NTSB report): CORPORATE JETS INC — On-demand air taxi (135) Operator Does Business As:

Probable cause

Insufficient lubrication within the tail rotor gearbox, which resulted in the seizure of the duplex ball bearing and a fixed pitch setting of the tail rotor. Also causal, was the pilot's loss of control, which was the result of a relative low speed/high power combination during a go-around attempt. A factor was the manufacturer's lack of procedures for fixed tail rotor pitch settings.

Source: NTSB case NYC01LA059

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.

Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.

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