DFW06CA213 · Robinson R22
Silver State Helicopters Robinson R22 · Accident: loss of control in flight while maneuvering
From Skiatook Municipal Airport (2F6) to Skiatook Municipal Airport (2F6)
Event
- NTSB case
- DFW06CA213
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
Robinson R22
- Aircraft type
- Robinson R22
- 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
- N468SH
- Operator
- Silver State Helicopters
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Skiatook Municipal Airport (2F6), Skiatook, OKTo Skiatook Municipal Airport (2F6), Skiatook, OK
- 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
- Maneuvering · hover
- 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 › Aircraft control, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Dynamic rollover, encountered
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The 1,365 hour single engine airplane rated pilot, who had accumulated 33 hours of flight instruction in a helicopter lost control of the helicopter while attempting to take off during his first solo flight. The pilot was attempting to take off on the parallel taxiway to runway 35 on a heading of 350 degrees when he lost control of the aircraft as the helicopter lifted off the ground. The pilot reported in the Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident/Incident Report (NTSB Form 6120.1), that the "helicopter became airborne suddenly with much less collective input than I expected." The helicopter began to roll to the right and the pilot then overcorrected to the left with cyclic input and lowered the collective. The helicopter's left skid made contact with the ground first and the helicopter entered a dynamic roll to the left until the main rotor contacted the ground, and the helicopter came to rest on its left side. Prior to the solo flight, the pilot and his instructor discussed the changes in the flight characteristics concerning single occupancy in the helicopter and the procedures for the flight. The pilot was not injured. Weather reported by the pilot was overcast skies, 10 miles visibility with winds from 340 degrees at 10 knots, and a density altitude of approximately 948 feet.
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the helicopter following an encounter with dynamic rollover.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DFW06CA213
- Event ID
- 20060928X01417
- Case number
- DFW06CA213
- 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: 56aca9d44c2c686df4ec86a4785f8dbae3f13f1e946aae31d281e65b6f836b5a; retrieved 2026-09-22T04:24:10.606Z.