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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 206B · Sabine Pass, TX · June 16, 1981

Date
June 16, 1981 · 06:30 local
Place
Sabine Pass, TX
Phase of flight
Aerial Taxi To Tkof/Rtrcrft
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N16640
Reported as
Bell 206B
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,451 total4,482 in this make and model111 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.

Pilot attempted liftoff while still tied down, poor pre-flight.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT ATTEMPTED LIFTOFF WHILE STILL TIED DOWN, POOR PRE-FLIGHT.

Other reports on N16640 · 3

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.