ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 151317
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| Date: | Saturday 27 December 2003 |
| Time: | 15:45 |
| Type: |  Aérospatiale SA 365N2 Dauphin 2 |
| Owner/operator: | New Mexico Life Rescue |
| Registration: | N291LL |
| MSN: | 6402 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1991 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 6635 hours |
| Engine model: | Turbomeca Arriel 1C2 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Santa Fe (SAF), NM -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Taxi |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Santa Fe, NM |
| Santa Fe, MA (SAF) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The wind was from "270 degrees at 16 knots with gusts unknown" when the pilot landed on the runway. He then ground taxied towards a maintenance hangar. He described his ground taxi speed as "a fast walk pace." As the helicopter passed between two sets of hangars, "high velocity winds from the left (270 degrees)...lifted the left wheel off the ground." He applied left cyclic control and left tail rotor control that brought the helicopter off centerline to the left. He maneuvered the helicopter and focused on the same corner of the hangar "as I always did" when parking. "As soon as I was starting to use right pedal, the [main rotor] blades impacted the hangar door," and the "torque of the blades pulled the aircraft nose around into the hangar door, causing [the helicopter] to land on its left side."
Probable Cause: the pilot's failure to maintain lateral clearance from the hangar. A contributing factor was the gusty crosswind.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB: https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20040108X00036&key=1
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Dec-2012 08:12 | TB | Added |
| 19-Dec-2012 08:56 | TB | Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:28 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 08-Dec-2017 20:26 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Operator, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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