# NTSB Accident CHI06LA074
> **Bell 206L-1** · 2006-02-02 · Chesterfield, IN, USA · SERS
## Event
- **NTSB number:** CHI06LA074
- **Event ID:** 20060210X00193
- **Type:** Accident
- **Date:** 2006-02-02
- **Location:** Chesterfield, IN, USA
- **Coordinates:** 40.11111, -85.603889
## Injuries
- **Highest injury:** SERS
- **Fatal:** 0
- **Serious:** 3
- **Minor:** 0
- **Uninjured:** 0
- **Total aboard:** 3
## Aircraft
- **Make:** Bell
- **Model:** 206L-1
- **Registration:** N593AE
- **FAR Part:** 091
- **Engines:** 1
- **Damage:** DEST
## Conditions
- **Light:** NDRK
- **Weather:** IMC
## Probable cause

The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control after becoming spatially disorientated shortly after departure.  Contributing to the accident was the pilot's inadequate preflight weather evaluation, his inadvertent flight into night instrument meteorological conditions, and the ground objects that the helicopter impacted during the descent.

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