Here is the conclusion of the NTSB:

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the
probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:

The pilot/owner's failure to maintain rotor rpm which
resulted in a loss of control. Contributing factors
were high gross weight and high density altitude.

In other words, it was overloaded. Saying the pilot was at fault is
not entirely true. His only fault was in buying a Brantly in the
first place. His inability to keep RPM up was not his ignorance, but
the failure of the helicopter to generate enough power. If you stop
and think about it, all helicopters crash because they failed to
maintain RPM. Its what caused the RPM to drop is what is important.

Dennis H.


(Murphy's law) wrote:

The facts of the crash
www.brantly.info
NTSB Report-May 2003, N2141U


Dennis Hawkins
n4mwd AT amsat DOT org (humans know what to do)

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