Aircraft Involved In An Alaska Accident Involving Main Rotor
Transmission Design
The NTSB has made a series of recommendations to the FAA
concerning Robinson R44 helicopters. The recommendations come
following an NTSB investigation involving one of the aircraft in
Alaska in May of 2009. In that accident, an R44, N7196H, sustained
substantial damage to the main rotor and tailboom during a hard
landing, about 57 miles northwest of Iliamna, Alaska. The
commercial pilot and the two passengers were not injured. The
helicopter was being operated by the State of Alaska, Alaska State
Troopers, Anchorage, Alaska, in VFR conditions.
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