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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 206L-1 · Morgan City, LA · February 2, 1979

Date: February 2, 1979 · 14:30 local
Place: Morgan City, LA
Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N5005G
Reported as: Bell 206L1
Reported engine: Allison 250C28B
People aboard: 3
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 9,932 total3,573 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N5005GRegistration cancelled Oct 29, 1993 · Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1S/N 45178 Airframe modelBell Helicopter Textron 206L-1

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.

Forced landing due to power loss. Found faulty overspeed control.

As the FAA filed it

FORCED LANDING DUE TO POWER LOSS. FOUND FAULTY OVERSPEED CONTROL.