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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Hiller UH-12L · Five Points, CA · August 28, 1980

Date: August 28, 1980 · 06:00 local
Place: Five Points, CA
Phase of flight: Idling Engines
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Substantial damage
Aircraft: N9780C
Reported as: Hiller UH12L
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 0 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N9780CRegistration cancelled May 30, 2013 · Hiller UH-12LS/N 2500 · Built 1964 Airframe modelHiller UH-12L Engine modelLycoming VO-540 seriesReciprocating

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.

Helicopter parked on truck with engine idling, vibration caused it to slide off truck.

As the FAA filed it

HELICOPTER PARKED ON TRUCK WITH ENGINE IDLING, VIBRATION CAUSED IT TO SLIDE OFF TRUCK.