What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Tail rotor struck ground during hover.
As the FAA filed it
TAIL ROTOR STRUCK GROUND DURING HOVER.
FAA incident report · Bell 47G3B2 · Kalispell, MT · May 21, 1979
- Date
- May 21, 1979 · 14:30 local
- Place
- Kalispell, MT
- Airport
- Municipal
- Phase of flight
- Hovering
- Operating rules
- Pilot school (Part 141)
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- N7805S
- Reported as
- Bell 47G3B2
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 6,500 total850 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.