ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 214151
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| Date: | Monday 4 March 1985 |
| Time: | 11:51 |
| Type: |  Robinson R22 ALPHA |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | VH-UXT |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Camden Airport (YSCN), Cobbitty, NSW -
 Australia
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | YSCN |
| YSCN | |
| Investigating agency: | BASI |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
As the final sequence of a licence test flight the examiner requested the pilot to carry out a normal autorotational landing from circuit height. The aircraft was flared slightly high, recovered but subsequently contacted the ground in a tail low attitude. It then bounced forward and the tail boom was severed by the main rotor. The aircraft flight manual specifies that touchdown following an autorotational descent must be made with the landing skids level. On this occasion touchdown was made on the heels of the skids, and the resulting oscillations of the aircraft allowed the main rotor blades to sail and strike the tail boom.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1985/aair/aair198502521/
https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/27544/aair198502521.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 07-Aug-2018 10:16 | Pineapple | Added |
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