ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 35186
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Date: | Tuesday 12 January 1993 |
Time: | 20:23 |
Type: | Bell 206B JetRanger |
Owner/operator: | Helinet Aviation Services Inc |
Registration: | N3202A |
MSN: | 962 |
Year of manufacture: | 1972 |
Total airframe hrs: | 10490 hours |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | San Francisco Bay, 3 miles SW of Hayward, California -
United States of America
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Marin County Airport, Novato, California (KDVO) |
Destination airport: | San Francisco, California (SFO/KSFO) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Whilst en route from Novato to Fremont the flight was diverted to San Francisco by the company dispatcher. About five minutes later the pilot made routine contact with the San Francisco Tower. This was the last contact with the flight.
The helicopter flew into the waters of San Francisco Bay some three miles southwest of Hayward, close to the San Mateo Bridge. Both crew were killed. The accident happened at night; broken cloud base 1,500 feet, visibility 4 mils but reducing to 0.25 miles in occasional rain showers. The helicopter was operating a cargo flight. The pilot had obtained a weather briefing that included areas of marginal VFR due to rain and fog, thunderstorms and several airmets and sigmets.
The NTSB determined the probable cause to be: The pilot's continued flight into known adverse weather conditions and continued VFR flight into IMC. Contributing to the accident were dark night light conditions and rain
Sources:
1. NTSB Identification: LAX93FA093 at
https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001211X11706&key=1&queryId=17d0aefa-12d1-4df1-ba03-da71dd1852a5&pgno=1&pgsize=50_ 2. FAA:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?omni=Home-N-Number&nNumberTxt=3202A 3.
http://www.griffin-helicopters.co.uk/accidentdetails.aspx?accidentkey=9438 4.
http://haywardairportnoise.org/hay-acc.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
24-Oct-2008 10:30 |
ASN archive |
Added |
27-Aug-2016 21:43 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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