MKC83FA196 · Bell 47G-3B
Bell 47G-3B · Accident: roll over while standing
Event
- NTSB case
- MKC83FA196
- 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
Bell 47G-3B
- Aircraft type
- Bell 47
- 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
- N73248
- 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 137: Agricultural
- 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
- Standing · idling rotors
- 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
- Roll over
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Diverted attention
- Pilot in command › Rotorcraft flight controls, improper use of
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT STATED THAT AFTER LANDING ON A TRUCK PLATFORM, HE DID NOT DECREASE ROTOR RPM & DID NOT LOWER COLLECTIVE TO FLAT PITCH AS HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO RECOVER A PIECE OF PAPER THAT HAD FALLEN TO THE FLOOR ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE COCKPIT. AS HE RELEASED THE CYCLIC CONTROL WITH HIS RIGHT HAND, THE ACFT SLIPPED TO THE RIGHT ACROSS THE PLATFORM'S STEEL SURFACE. THE PLT ADDED LEFT CYCLIC & APPLIED COLLECTIVE PITCH TO LIFT THE ACFT. THE RIGHT SKID CAUGHT ON THE PLATFORM FENCE & THE ACFT ROLLED TO THE RIGHT OFF THE PLATFORM. UPON IMPACTING THE GROUND, THE ACFT BURST INTO FLAMES. THE PLT'S SON ASSISTED HIM IN ESCAPING FROM THE BURNING WRECKAGE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MKC83FA196
- Event ID
- 20001214X44268
- Case number
- MKC83FA196
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1983-08-18.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 41e6de303f722c221d24f3755c72ae976b5fa3163728642460c6983f2cda9ca9; retrieved 2026-09-21T17:49:56.524Z.