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Incident · Destroyed

FAA incident report · Hughes 269A · Linden, MI · May 9, 1979

Date
May 9, 1979 · 19:30 local
Place
Linden, MI
Airport
Price
Phase of flight
Idling Rotors
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N8898F
Reported as
Hughes 269A
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,300 total225 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.

During functional and power check after engine overhaul helicopter went into ground resonance. Destroyed.

As the FAA filed it

DURING FUNCTIONAL AND POWER CHECK AFTER ENGINE OVERHAUL HELICOPTER WENT INTO GROUND RESONANCE. DESTROYED.

Other reports on N8898F · 1

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