19780930018219I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Amtrrw Scorpion/ · Green Valley, AZ · September 30, 1978

Date
September 30, 1978 · 16:03 local
Place
Green Valley, AZ
Phase of flight
Idling Rotors
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N59380
Reported as
Amtrrw Scorpion/
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
100 total11 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.

While blade tracking a dust devil lifted tail. Craft moved forward then settled to ground with damage and injury.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE BLADE TRACKING A DUST DEVIL LIFTED TAIL. CRAFT MOVED FORWARD THEN SETTLED TO GROUND WITH DAMAGE AND INJURY.