ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 74801
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| Date: | Saturday 5 August 2000 |
| Time: | 15:35 |
| Type: |  Robinson R44 Astro |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | LV-WJJ |
| MSN: | 0118 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1994 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Monte Cristo, Cordova -
 Argentina
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | General Villa Belgrano Airport, Argentina |
| Colonel Olmedo Airport, Argentina | |
| Investigating agency: | JIAAC |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot took off from the airport of General Villa Belgrano to Colonel Olmedo Airport, both in Province of Cordova, to make a training flight. Previous to the landing it came to fly over of the manufacturing plant of his (the pilot's) property located near Monte Cristo.
At moments at which the helicopter controlled the position with a GPS, without noticing it, took the key of control of governor to position “OFF”, thus lost the automatic control of the RPM; it began to sound the alarm and the light of low RPM ignited.
By the time the pilot recognized the fault, he was only able realise a forced landing in a plowed field. In moment of the touchdown, the left ski dug in the Earth, producing an abrupt turn towards that side with roll of the helicopter.
CAUSE: During a training flight, by having inadvertently cut the key of control of "governor" and not to have recognized the fault, causing a forced landing in autorotation by diminution of the RPM, bringing about damages of importance to aeronavigation
Sources:
http://www.jiaac.gob.ar/files/pdf/Bol30.pdf
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://coptercrazy.brinkster.net/search/r44show.asp?start=101&count=50]
http://web.archive.org/web/20120418032733/http://www.rotorspot.nl:80/lv.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Dec-2011 18:05 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 31-Jan-2020 17:36 | Anon. | Updated [Total occupants, Narrative] |
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