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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Hughes 269C · Escondido, CA · September 2, 1983

Date: September 2, 1983 · 09:30 local
Place: Escondido, CA
Phase of flight: Low Level Operations
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N8664F
Reported as: Hughes 269C
Reported engine: Lycoming HIO360*
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 450 total300 in this make and model128 in the last 90 days

N8664FRegistered now · Hughes 269CS/N 1170641 · Built 1977 Airframe modelHughes 269C Engine modelLycoming HIO-360 seriesReciprocating

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.

Struck a powerline while flying down a canyon. Wires did not have markers. Wires were backlighted against sun.

As the FAA filed it

STRUCK A POWERLINE WHILE FLYING DOWN A CANYON. WIRES DID NOT HAVE MARKERS. WIRES WERE BACKLIGHTED AGAINST SUN.