2004-02 · NASA ASRS report 609969
EMER OFF ARPT LNDG PERFORMED IN AN R44 HELI AFTER HIGH ENG TEMPS NOTED.
I WAS SEBOUND FROM ZZZ2. HAD JUST CROSSED OVER ZZZ ARPT AND HAD JUST CHANGED FREQS FROM ZZZ TO ZZZ1 ON 126.05. TOLD THE ZZZ1 TWR I HAD 'LNDG ISSUED AND LNDG IN SIGHT' AFTER NOTICING MY TEMP GAUGE WAS EXTREMELY HOT AND A CHIP INDICATING LIGHT CAME ON. LANDED IN OPEN FIELD. I SHUT DOWN HELI AND CHKED OIL AND HYD OIL AND SHOWED TO BE EXTREMELY LOW. HAD RECENTLY PUT HELI INTO SHOP 2 TIMES PREVIOUSLY IN THE LAST 60 DAYS FOR LEAKS AND WAS TOLD PROB WAS CORRECTED. HAVE AGAIN PUT HELI IN SHOP TO FIX PROB AT FBO X. THE FIELD THAT I HAD TO LAND IN WAS APPARENTLY OWNED BY A SCHOOL THAT WAS VERY UPSET THAT I LANDED ON THEIR PROPERTY. I EXPLAINED TO THE VICE PRINCIPAL THAT I DIDN'T HAVE ANY OTHER OPTIONS AND THAT I LANDED IN THE MOST OPEN FIELD AVAILABLE. BUT HE SAID HE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT SECURITY AND THAT HE WAS UPSET. I SAID THAT I WAS SORRY AND THAT I HAD NO OTHER PLACE I COULD SET THE HELI DOWN. THERE WERE NO CHILDREN OR PEOPLE IN THE FIELD AND THE ONLY FIELD I COULD LAND QUICKLY AND SAFELY IN.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
Loading the flight search…
Pick an aircraft model — Boeing 737, Airbus A320, A380, Boeing 787 Dreamliner and more — enter your origin airport, and FlightFinder shows every route that plane flies from there with live fares.
We support Boeing 737/747/757/767/777/787, the full Airbus A220/A319/A320/A321/A330/A340/A350/A380 family, Embraer E170/E175/E190/E195, Bombardier CRJ and Dash 8, and the ATR 42/72 turboprops.
Search and schedules are free. Pro ($4.99/month, $39/year, or $99 one-time lifetime) unlocks the enriched flight card — on-time stats, CO₂ per passenger, amenities, live gate & weather — plus My Trips with push alerts.
Live schedules come from Amadeus, AeroDataBox and Travelpayouts. Observed routes (which aircraft actually flew a given city pair) are crowdsourced from adsb.lol ADS-B data under the Open Database License.