19781002030869I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 206L · Saginaw, TX · October 2, 1978

Date
October 2, 1978 · 16:47 local
Place
Saginaw, TX
Airport
Globe
Phase of flight
Sfl Autorotation
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N90187
Reported as
Bell 206L
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
10,000 total4,000 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.

Severe vibration after normal autorotation, could have been caused by holding up collective after touchdown.

As the FAA filed it

SEVERE VIBRATION AFTER NORMAL AUTOROTATION, COULD HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY HOLDING UP COLLECTIVE AFTER TOUCHDOWN.