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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Hughes 269C · Billings, MT · January 12, 1979

Date: January 12, 1979 · 10:45 local
Place: Billings, MT
Phase of flight: Other Ground Ops
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N9632F
Reported as: Hughes 269C
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 6,391 total3,347 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N9632FRegistration cancelled Jun 11, 2003 · Hughes 269CS/N 900038 · Built 1970 Airframe modelHughes 269C Engine modelLycoming I0360 seriesReciprocating

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.

Heliocopter landed in deep snow which gave way under left skid, rolled over and damaged rotor blades.

As the FAA filed it

HELIOCOPTER LANDED IN DEEP SNOW WHICH GAVE WAY UNDER LEFT SKID, ROLLED OVER AND DAMAGED ROTOR BLADES.

Other reports on N9632F · 1

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

Accident 19811126075839APwr Off Run Land (Autorotation · Billings, MTEngine quit. Throttle back at a low altitude. No time to autorotate. Engine may have cooled fast at 13 degrees.Nov 26, 1981 · Destroyed