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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Hughes 269C · Rancho Palos Ve, CA · July 19, 1981

Date
July 19, 1981 · 16:30 local
Place
Rancho Palos Ve, CA
Phase of flight
Pwr Off Run Land (Autorotation
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7460F
Reported as
Hughes 269C
Reported engine
Lycoming HIO360*
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
500 in this make and model600 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.

Engine stopped for unknown reason. Pilot unable to restart engine because he did not operate mixture control right.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE STOPPED FOR UNKNOWN REASON. PILOT UNABLE TO RESTART ENGINE BECAUSE HE DID NOT OPERATE MIXTURE CONTROL RIGHT.