ERA15WA211 · Bell 430
Zorlu Air Havacilik A.S. Bell 430 · Accident: hard landing during autorotation
From Aydin to Aydin
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA15WA211
- 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
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Bell 430
- Aircraft type
- Bell 430
- 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
- TC-HSZ
- Operator
- Zorlu Air Havacilik A.S.
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From AydinTo Aydin
- 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
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- 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
- Autorotation
- 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
- Hard landing
- 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 · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On April 26, 2015, at 1322 coordinated universal time, a Bell 430, Turkish-registered TC-HSZ, was substantially damaged following a hard landing near Aydin, Turkey. The pilot and co-pilot were not injured. Two passengers sustained minor injuries, and three passengers were not injured.
This investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the government of Turkey. This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications (AIB), Turkey.
Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from: Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications (AIB) Hanimeli Sok. No. 7 Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey Tel 90-312-203-2173 Fax 90-312-229-7289
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA15WA211
- Event ID
- 20150514X22344
- Case number
- ERA15WA211
- 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: d935efc7095b5f78e78a571b0fe2dd7361b0abba1f8961daf8f01bf6e442a3c0; retrieved 2026-09-16T02:18:42.945Z.