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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Hughes 369D · Waldport, OR · February 28, 1979

Date
February 28, 1979 · 15:30 local
Place
Waldport, OR
Phase of flight
To Vertical (Helicopter Only)
Operating rules
Rotorcraft external load (Part 133)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N58230
Reported as
Hughes 369D
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,000 total500 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.

External load of cedar bolts broke loose and fell on ground hooker.

As the FAA filed it

EXTERNAL LOAD OF CEDAR BOLTS BROKE LOOSE AND FELL ON GROUND HOOKER.