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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 206B3 · Schulenburg, TX · September 8, 1984

Date
September 8, 1984 · 16:00 local
Place
Schulenburg, TX
Phase of flight
Low Level Operations
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3311Z
Reported as
Bell 206B3
Reported engine
Allison 250C20B
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
6,000 total1,500 in this make and model250 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.

During seismic survey at 10 ft AGL helicopter struck a powerline on pull up over a tree line. Landed safely.

As the FAA filed it

DURING SEISMIC SURVEY AT 10 FT AGL HELICOPTER STRUCK A POWERLINE ON PULL UP OVER A TREE LINE. LANDED SAFELY.