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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Hiller UH-12E · Cairo, CA · August 3, 1980

Date
August 3, 1980 · 10:00 local
Place
Cairo, CA
Phase of flight
Low Level Operations
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N81960
Reported as
Hiller UH12E
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
10,000 total2,000 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.

Agricultural helicopter struck power lines.

As the FAA filed it

AGRICULTURAL HELICOPTER STRUCK POWER LINES.