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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Namer SNJ4 · Upland, CA · September 2, 1978

Date
September 2, 1978 · 17:06 local
Place
Upland, CA
Airport
Cable
Phase of flight
Aerial Taxi, Other Helicopter
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3197C
Reported as
Namer SNJ4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,400 total300 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

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.

Taxiing helicopter struck parked helicopter causing substantial damage.

As the FAA filed it

TAXIING HELICOPTER STRUCK PARKED HELICOPTER CAUSING SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE.