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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC90LA072

1990-02-22 NORWOOD, Massachusetts, United States Airport · OWD Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N41AA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

EMBRAER EXECUTIVE AIRCRAFT INC EMB-505

Year of manufacture

2017

Engine

P&W CANADA PW535E

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20170922

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4D1C8

Registrant of record

APPLIED IMAGING RIDE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

IMPROPER PLANNING/DECISION BY THE PILOT. THE TURBULENCE WAS A RELATED FACTOR.

Factual narrative

DURING A DESCENT TO LAND, SEVERE TURBULENCE WAS ENCOUNTERED AND THE HELICOPTER BEGAN TO ROLL RIGHT. CONTROL INPUTS TO CORRECT THE SITUATION WERE INEFFECTIVE AND THE HELICOPTER COLLIDED WITH A FENCE IN A BACK YARD OF A RESIDENCE. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1990_NYC90LA072.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (turbulence). 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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