CEN11WA334 · Schweizer 269D
Schweizer 269D · Accident
From Kempen Airport Budel (EHBD) to Lelystad Airport (EHLE)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN11WA334
- 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
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- 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
- Unknown
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Schweizer 269D
- Aircraft type
- Schweizer 269
- Category
- Helicopter · from aircraft type
- 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
- PH-HHF
- Operator
- Heli Holland Holding B.V.
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Kempen Airport Budel (EHBD), WeertTo Lelystad Airport (EHLE), Lelystad
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe 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
- Not recorded
- 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
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Veghel, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On May 11, 2011, at 1315 universal coordinated time (UTC), a Schweizer 269D, PH-HHF, sustained substantial damage when the helicopter crashed and caught fire near Veghel, the Netherlands. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The pilot was not injured. The flight originated from the Weert-Budel/Kempen Airport, Weert, Netherlands, and was en route to the Lelystad Airport, Lelystad, Netherlands.
The accident investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of The Dutch Safety Board. This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained from the government of The Netherlands. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
The Dutch Safety Board P.O Box 95404 2509 CK DEN HAAG The Netherlands
Tel: +31 70 3337000 www.safetyboard.nl
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN11WA334
- Event ID
- 20110512X61238
- Case number
- CEN11WA334
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: d97b3ac236227678c0dcb477613e7eb0464144afa686b954b337ab7469dbe47c; retrieved 2026-09-15T16:09:34.942Z.