What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Helicopter pilot struck by hunters shotgun blast.
As the FAA filed it
HELICOPTER PILOT STRUCK BY HUNTERS SHOTGUN BLAST.
FAA incident report · Hiller UH-12E · Avondale, AZ · September 2, 1978
- Date
- September 2, 1978 · 08:15 local
- Place
- Avondale, AZ
- Phase of flight
- Low Level Operations
- Operating rules
- Agricultural (Part 137)
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- N65156
- Reported as
- Hiller UH12E
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 11,000 total2,500 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.