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Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Bell 47G3 · Deming, TX · September 20, 1979

Date
September 20, 1979 · 12:15 local
Place
Deming, TX
Phase of flight
Unauth Low Level Opns
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N2220W
NTSB investigation
NTSBDEN79FA065
Reported as
Bell 47G3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,400 total500 in this make and model20 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.

Put helicopter in vertical climb to miss power-lines. Stalled, dropped vertically to ground impact.

As the FAA filed it

PUT HELICOPTER IN VERTICAL CLIMB TO MISS POWER-LINES. STALLED, DROPPED VERTICALLY TO GROUND IMPACT.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.