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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 212 · Las Cruces, CA · February 2, 1983

Date
February 2, 1983 · 09:15 local
Place
Las Cruces, CA
Airport
Gaviota Peak
Phase of flight
Idling Rotors
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
PERA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N16754
Reported as
Bell 212
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney PT6T3
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
6,000 total450 in this make and model5 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.

Severe gusty surface winds after landing caused main rotors to strike tail boom during engine shutdown.

As the FAA filed it

SEVERE GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AFTER LANDING CAUSED MAIN ROTORS TO STRIKE TAIL BOOM DURING ENGINE SHUTDOWN.