What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
On landing gusty surface winds caused a tail rotor strike.
As the FAA filed it
ON LANDING GUSTY SURFACE WINDS CAUSED A TAIL ROTOR STRIKE.
FAA incident report · Bell 206L-1 · Empire, LA · August 29, 1983
- Date
- August 29, 1983 · 17:45 local
- Place
- Empire, LA
- Phase of flight
- Pwr On Vertical Ldng/Rtrcrft
- Operating rules
- General operating rules (Part 91)
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- N3907C
- Reported as
- Bell 206L1
- Reported engine
- Allison 250C28
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 14,000 total5,000 in this make and model180 in the last 90 days
N3907CRegistration cancelled Jan 11, 1991 · Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1Airframe modelBell Helicopter Textron 206L-1
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.