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Incident

FAA incident report · Hughes 369 · Smithfield, NC · March 8, 1982

Date
March 8, 1982 · 13:30 local
Place
Smithfield, NC
Phase of flight
Pwr Off Run Land (Autorotation
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N4265P
Reported as
Hughes 369
Reported engine
Allison 250C18
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,000 total250 in this make and model30 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.

Lost directional control. Made autorotational landing. Loose cockpit console panel interfered with torque pedal.

As the FAA filed it

LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. MADE AUTOROTATIONAL LANDING. LOOSE COCKPIT CONSOLE PANEL INTERFERED WITH TORQUE PEDAL.

Other reports on N4265P · 1

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