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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Hughes 269C · Wiggins, CO · August 10, 1978

Date: August 10, 1978 · 10:30 local
Place: Wiggins, CO
Phase of flight: Low Level Operations
Operating rules: Agricultural (Part 137)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N7472F
Reported as: Hughes 269C
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 9,000 total250 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N7472FRegistration cancelled Nov 17, 2014 · Hughes 269CS/N 270556 Airframe modelHughes 269C

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Helicopter struck powerlines.

As the FAA filed it

HELICOPTER STRUCK POWERLINES.

Other reports on N7472F · 2

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

Accident 20010908025489ALubbock, TX(-23) Pilot had just started the first spray pass in this field, he had flown several flights earlier in the day. He was about 800 feet into the field when he saw and felt hot smoke coming into the helicopter cockpit from the right side. He was flying with…Sep 8, 2001 · No damage Accident 19790612012309AForced Landing · Eckley, COHelecopter crashed during emerg landing attempt,caused by engine failure .Jun 12, 1979 · Substantial damage