19800310005869A

Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Bell 47G · Stockton, CA · March 10, 1980

Date
March 10, 1980 · 18:30 local
Place
Stockton, CA
Phase of flight
Low Level Operations
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N927B
NTSB investigation
NTSBLAX80DVD14
Reported as
Bell 47G
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
961 total312 in this make and model64 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.

Main rotor struck irrigation vent pipe during a swath run at dusk. Crash-landed. Rolled over and burned.

As the FAA filed it

MAIN ROTOR STRUCK IRRIGATION VENT PIPE DURING A SWATH RUN AT DUSK. CRASH-LANDED. ROLLED OVER AND BURNED.

NTSB investigation

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