ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 158870
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| Date: | Thursday 22 August 2013 |
| Time: | 17:48 |
| Type: |  McDonnell Douglas MD530F (369FF) |
| Owner/operator: | Rogers Helicopters Inc |
| Registration: | N975BW |
| MSN: | 0103FF |
| Year of manufacture: | 1994 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3451 hours |
| Engine model: | Rolls Royce 250 20&30 SER |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | nr Reese, Tuscola County, MI -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Saginaw, MI (MBS) |
| Saginaw, MI (MBS) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The helicopter was conducting an electrical power line construction operation with a lineman standing outside on the skid. The wire was temporarily suspended by a hoist and the lineman was inserting a fiber shoe to attach the wire to the arm of the tower. While the helicopter was hovering next to the wire at about 200 feet above ground level the hoist slipped and the wire fell onto the top of the helicopter's skid. Control was briefly lost and four of the helicopter's main rotor blades impacted the tower resulting in substantial damage to the main rotor blades. The pilot quickly regained control and made an emergency landing in tall corn about 200 feet from the accident location.
Probable Cause: The failure of the temporary hoist holding the powerline wire which resulted in a brief loss of control and main rotor blade impacts with the tower.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
FAA register: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N975BW
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 29 May 2018 | N975BW | Rogers Helicopters, Inc. | 0 | Wikieup, Arizona | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 23-Aug-2013 12:11 | gerard57 | Added |
| 23-Aug-2013 22:48 | Geno | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 25-Aug-2013 12:56 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 24-Jun-2016 14:20 | harro | Updated [Location, Narrative] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:28 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 29-Nov-2017 08:59 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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