19830331016389I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 206L-1 · Galveston, TX · March 31, 1983

Date
March 31, 1983 · 10:50 local
Place
Galveston, TX
Airport
Scholes
Phase of flight
Aerial Taxi From Ldg/Rtrcrft
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2203E
Reported as
Bell 206L1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,589 total304 in this make and model86 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 allowed the tail rotor to contact the windscreen of a parked aircraft while backing up for refueling.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT ALLOWED THE TAIL ROTOR TO CONTACT THE WINDSCREEN OF A PARKED AIRCRAFT WHILE BACKING UP FOR REFUELING.

Other reports on N2203E · 1

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