FTW86LA032 · Sikorsky S-76A
Sikorsky S-76A · Accident: loss of control on ground/water while standing
From Amelia, LA to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW86LA032
- 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
- 3 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 3
- 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
Sikorsky S-76A
- Aircraft type
- Sikorsky S-76
- 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
- N7612L
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Amelia, LATo 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 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
- 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
- Loss of control on ground/water
- 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 › Procedures/directives, not followed
- Pilot in command › Proper assistance, not used
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT ROLLED OVER IN A HIGH X-WIND AFTER LANDING WHILE DEPLANING PASSENGERS. THE ACFT HAD LANDED ON A MOVING BARGE. A LANDING INTO THE WIND WAS BLOCKED BY A CRANE SO THE PLT SIDESLIPPED FROM A FLT PATH THAT PARALLELED THE SHIPS MOVEMENT. THE WIND WAS ACROSS THE BARGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. AFTER LANDING THE PLT DID NOT CHANGE THE X-WIND HEADING OF THE ACFT. ACCORDING TO A WITNESS THE ACFT WAS HEADING TOWARD THE RT SIDE OF THE VESSEL & THE WIND WAS FROM THE LEFT. THE PLT LEFT THE ENGS AT 'FLY' BECAUSE HE WAS UNSURE OF THE STABILITY OF THE POSITION BUT HE ALLOWED THE PASSENGERS TO DEPLANE. AS THE PASSENGERS DEPLANED WITNESSES SAID THE ACFT'S LEFT LANDING GEAR LIFTED SLIGHTLY OFF THE DECK. THIS REPORTEDLY HAPPENED 2 OR 3 TIMES BEFORE THE ACFT ROLLED OVER. THE PLT STATED THAT AS THE ROLL BEGAN HE APPLIED FULL LEFT CYCLIC WITH NO EFFECT. ONE WITNESS SAID THAT THERE WAS A STRONG GUST OF WIND AT THE TIME OF THE ROLL-OVER.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW86LA032
- Event ID
- 20010110X00170
- Case number
- FTW86LA032
- 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: 66af4d8ac2272f60fc8c9be46f5a5a1956673088b1c0f9d98240ddd0ff8217fe; retrieved 2026-09-18T20:10:17.984Z.