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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 206B3 · North Conway, NH · August 6, 1983

Date
August 6, 1983 · 19:00 local
Place
North Conway, NH
Phase of flight
Pwr Off Run Land (Autorotation
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N327WM
Reported as
Bell 206B3
Reported engine
Allison 250C20B
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,606 total380 in this make and model126 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.

Screeching noise in engine. Engine out horn. Lost power. Autorotated into a corn field.

As the FAA filed it

SCREECHING NOISE IN ENGINE. ENGINE OUT HORN. LOST POWER. AUTOROTATED INTO A CORN FIELD.