ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 67818
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| Date: | Saturday 8 August 2009 |
| Time: | 11:53 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-32R-300 Lance |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N71MC |
| MSN: | 32R-7680172 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4505 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Hudson River, New York -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Teterboro, NJ (TEB) |
| Ocean City, NJ (26N) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On August 8, 2009, at 1153:14 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-32R-300 airplane, N71MC, and a Eurocopter AS350BA helicopter, N401LH, operated by Liberty Helicopters, collided over the Hudson River near Hoboken, New Jersey. The pilot and two passengers aboard the airplane and the pilot and five passengers aboard the helicopter were killed, and both aircraft received substantial damage from the impact. The airplane flight was operating under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91, and the helicopter flight was operating under the provisions of 14 CFR Parts 135 and 136. No flight plans were filed or were required for either flight, and visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident.
Probable Cause: (1) the inherent limitations of the see-and-avoid concept, which made it difficult for the airplane pilot to see the helicopter until the final seconds before the collision, and (2) the Teterboro Airport local controller’s nonpertinent telephone conversation, which distracted him from his air traffic control (ATC) duties, including correcting the airplane pilot’s read back of the Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) tower frequency and the timely transfer of communications for the accident airplane to the EWR tower. Contributing to this accident were (1) both pilots’ ineffective use of available information from their aircraft’s electronic traffic advisory system to maintain awareness of nearby aircraft, (2) inadequate Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) procedures for transfer of communications among ATC facilities near the Hudson River Class B exclusion area; and (3) FAA regulations that did not provide adequate vertical separation for aircraft operating in the Hudson River Class B exclusion area.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
http://discussions.flightaware.com/viewtopic.php?t=8966&sid=21567626f717e27529143baf837ad0a9
NTSB
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 08-Aug-2009 10:58 | harro | Added |
| 08-Aug-2009 11:56 | harro | Updated |
| 08-Aug-2009 12:31 | RobertMB | Updated |
| 08-Aug-2009 12:42 | RobertMB | Updated |
| 08-Aug-2009 21:59 | harro | Updated |
| 10-Aug-2009 11:46 | harro | Updated |
| 14-Aug-2009 12:25 | harro | Updated |
| 14-Aug-2009 12:25 | harro | Updated |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:25 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 22-Apr-2017 11:20 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Dec-2017 15:58 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Feb-2020 13:14 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, Accident report, ] |
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