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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 206B · Belmont, NV · October 19, 1983

Date
October 19, 1983 · 15:00 local
Place
Belmont, NV
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N97493
Reported as
Bell 206B
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
10,000 total3,300 in this make and model200 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.

Violent vibration at cruise. Landed safely. Rotor blade pitch change link assembly clevis broke at the jam nut.

As the FAA filed it

VIOLENT VIBRATION AT CRUISE. LANDED SAFELY. ROTOR BLADE PITCH CHANGE LINK ASSEMBLY CLEVIS BROKE AT THE JAM NUT.