Omni Flight Airways [ems] MBB BO-105 incident
MBB BO-105 · Incident: loss of control in flight on approach
From Leesburg, FL to Orlando, FL
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA85IA015
- 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
- Incident
- 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
- Charter & commuter
- 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
MBB BO-105
- Aircraft type
- MBB BO-105
- 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
- N29144
- Operator
- Omni Flight Airways [ems]
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Leesburg, FLTo Orlando, FL
- 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 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- 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
- Approach · VFR pattern final
- 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
- Minor
Cause areas
- Control interference
- Pilot in command › Planning/decision, improper
- Rotorcraft flight control, collective control › Foreign object
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PURPOSE OF THE FLT WAS TO TRANSPORT A 76 YR OLD PATIENT, WHO WAS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. THE FLT WAS NORMAL UNTIL IT WAS ON FINAL APCH TO A 7TH FLOOR, ROOFTOP, HOSPITAL HELIPORT. DURING THE APCH, THE PLT ATTEMPTED TO INCREASE THE COLLECTIVE TO SLOW THE RATE OF DESCENT. HOWEVER, THE COLLECTIVE CONTROL WOULD NOT RAISE. THE PLT WAS ABLE TO KEEP THE HELICOPTER FROM HITTING THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING, BUT SUBSEQUENTLY LANDED HARD ON A LOWER ROOFTOP AT THE 2ND FLOOR LEVEL. THERE WAS MINOR DAMAGE TO THE SKID CROSSTUBES, TAIL ROTOR, TAIL BOOM, LEFT HORIZONTAL STABILIZER FIN & AN ANTENNA. AFTER THE INCIDENT, THE PLT NOTED THAT A HAND HELD TYPE RADIO HAD LODGED BEHIND THE COLLECTIVE PITCH CONTROL.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA85IA015
- Event ID
- 20001214X41429
- Case number
- MIA85IA015
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (5)
- 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: d7342bbad8d0d7b5d5ae1bc374f9acdbbb50079b43018e76deb6f27dbc45d6a9; retrieved 2026-09-18T20:35:39.830Z.
- The NTSB's operator name is blank for N29144; the operator shown is the name the NTSB records it doing business as.