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| Date: | Tuesday 1 December 1992 |
| Time: | 09:30 |
| Type: |  Hughes 269C |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | VH-OBK |
| MSN: | 1190855 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Location: | 40km NNE Warren, NSW -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Buttabone, NSW |
| Buttabone, NSW | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
During a "hot refuelling" operation the ground assistant was fatally injured when he was struck on the head by a main rotor blade. He had parked a utility under the main rotor disc and when he climbed onto the rear tray he received the injury.
Sources:
ATSB Occurrence Nr. 199201782
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 4 January 1995 | VH-OBK | 0 | Sassafras, TAS | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Jan-2008 10:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 02-Mar-2008 02:28 | Andrew Whitton | Updated |
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