40.7254° N, 73.6459° WPlaced by OpenAirDocs: center of Garden City, NY, within about 6 miles.Open in the map
Date
September 4, 1984 · 13:30 local
Place
Garden City, NY
Phase of flight
Pwr On Vertical Ldng/Rtrcrft
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N721SW
Reported as
Snias AS332L
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,293 total96 in this make and model128 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.
Rotor downwash during landing caused parked helicopter to move off of ramp and contact parked car and fence.
As the FAA filed it
ROTOR DOWNWASH DURING LANDING CAUSED PARKED HELICOPTER TO MOVE OFF OF RAMP AND CONTACT PARKED CAR AND FENCE.