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Event NYC87LA210

1987-07-24 MARSTON MILLS, Massachusetts, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6355

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL 47G

Year of manufacture

1956 · 31 years old at event

TCDS

H-1 · SCOTT'S-BELL 47 INC

Engine

FRANKLIN 6V 350 SERIES (235 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19720929

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A85356

Registrant of record

STEWART ROBERT D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE HELICOPTER REACHED AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 50 FEET WHEN A LOSS OF POWER WAS EXPERIENCED. IMMEDIATELY THE PILOT SET UP FOR AN EMERGENCY LANDING AND SET THE HELICOPTER DOWN. THE AIRCRAFT, HOWEVER, COLLIDED WITH THE GROUND HARD AND INCURRED SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE. CONDITIONS WERE CONDUCIVE TO CARBURETOR ICING DURING GLIDE POWER, NOT TKOF POWER. INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT FUEL WAS IN THE FUEL TANKS. NO REASON WAS FOUND THAT COULD EXPLAIN THE LOSS OF POWER TO THE ENGINE. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1987_NYC87LA210.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (icing). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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