ATL87LA267 · Enstrom F-28A
Enstrom F-28A · Accident: loss of control in flight while taxiing
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL87LA267
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Enstrom F-28A
- Aircraft type
- Enstrom F-28
- Category
- Helicopter
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N29GC
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Taxi · aerial
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control in flight
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Compensation for wind conditions, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Directional control, not maintained
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT REPORTED THAT THE HELICOPTER MADE AN UNCOMMANDED TURN TO THE RIGHT AND ROLLED TO THE LEFT AS SHE WAS HOVER-TAXIING AWAY FROM THE HANGAR TOWARD THE TAKEOFF AREA. THE ACFT SUBSEQUENTLY IMPACTED THE TERRAIN AND CAME TO REST ON ITS LEFT SIDE. POST-CRASH EXAM OF THE ACFT REVEALED NO EVIDENCE OF PRE-EXISTING MECHANICAL FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION. INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT THE WIND AT THE TIME WAS BLOWING FROM 320 DEG AT 15 KTS GUSTING TO 22 KTS, AND THAT THE HELO LIFTOFF POINT WAS ON THE DOWNWIND SIDE OF THE HANGAR. THE FAA BASIC HELICOPTER HANDBOOK AC61-13B NOTES THAT TURBULENCE IS LIKELY TO BE FOUND NEAR THE GROUND OF THE DOWNWIND SIDE OF BLDGS WHENEVER THE WIND VELOCITY EXCEEDS 10 MPH (8.7 KTS).
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL87LA267
- Event ID
- 20001213X32014
- Case number
- ATL87LA267
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: bd3025eb0235b157874b99db7e1200ec57268f92968ccf2a409d8949d402447b; retrieved 2026-09-23T11:54:46.897Z.