EASTWIND AVIATION Logistic Services Sikorsky S76 C accident
Sikorsky S76 C · Accident on approach
From Port Harcourt City Airport / Port Harcourt Air Force Base (DNPM) to Nuim Antan FPSO, near the Bight of Bonny
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA25WA015
- 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
- Preliminary · NSIB interim report, 24 Oct 2025
- API-reported fatalities
- 8 · 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
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Sikorsky S76 C
- Aircraft type
- Sikorsky S76
- 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-BQG
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Port Harcourt City Airport / Port Harcourt Air Force Base (DNPM), Port Harcourt Military AirportTo Nuim Antan FPSO, near the Bight of Bonny
- 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
- Approach
- 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
- Unknown or undetermined
- 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 from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
Investigated by the authorities of Nigeria; the NTSB took part and publishes no narrative.
Sources
NTSB record GAA25WA015
- Event ID
- 20241028195388
- Case number
- GAA25WA015
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- 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: coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the UTC date the NTSB stores; the local time zone is not recorded, so the local date may differ by a day.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 3f7cf2749e71dee4275153d86f93e288fed777a0fb9316b0f531e142a1cef610; retrieved 2026-09-15T08:59:44.620Z.
- Checked against the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) interim report (2025-10-24) on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, fatalities, registration and operator. Taken from the report: departure and destination. Not checked: place, crash-site coordinates, flight number, aircraft type, damage, type of operation and ground fatalities.