WPR20WA023 · Sikorsky S92 A
Sikorsky S92 A · Incident: fuel related en route
From an unrecorded airport to Port Harcourt N
Event
- NTSB case
- WPR20WA023
- 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
- Incident
- 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
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- 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
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Unknown
Sikorsky S92 A
- Aircraft type
- Sikorsky S92
- 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
- 5N-BOA
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Port Harcourt N
- 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., 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
- En route
- 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
- Fuel related
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Not recorded
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
On October 25, 2019, about 1419, time zone unknown, a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter, 5N-BOA, experienced an in-flight engine shutdown near Port Harcourt NAS, Nigeria. Their were no injuries. The helicopter was operated under the pertinent civil regulations of the government of Nigeria.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the government of Nigeria. This report is for information purposes only and contains only information released by the government of Nigeria. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Accident Investigation Bureau
Murtala Muhammed International Airport
P.M.B. 016
Ikeja, Lagos
Nigeria
Tel.: (234) 807 709-0900
(234) 807 709-0908 / 0909 (Emergency / accident lines)
E-mail: commissioner@aib.gov.ng, info@aib.gov.ng
Website: www.aib.gov.ng
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR20WA023
- Event ID
- 20191118X14801
- Case number
- WPR20WA023
- 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: f33d3e242aa396e1c68bf7e0e4ae86fb6f18a2ba9b7d37f62d6d98d2dc149756; retrieved 2026-09-16T10:38:16.504Z.