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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Hughes 369 · Ketchikan, AK · August 8, 1981

Date
August 8, 1981 · 08:00 local
Place
Ketchikan, AK
Phase of flight
Pwr Off Run Land (Autorotation
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N9171F
NTSB investigation
NTSBANC81DA096
Reported as
Hughes 369
Reported engine
Allison 250C20B
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
12,069 total1,506 in this make and model10 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 failure resulted in autorotation landing in river bed, striking log and crashing.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE FAILURE RESULTED IN AUTOROTATION LANDING IN RIVER BED, STRIKING LOG AND CRASHING.

NTSB investigation

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