19880128012529I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 206L1 · West Cameron Bl, LA · January 28, 1988

Date
January 28, 1988 · 16:00 local
Place
West Cameron Bl, LA
Phase of flight
Pwr On Vertical Ldng/Rtrcrft
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5737T
Reported as
Bell 206L1
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,694 total5,210 in this make and model80 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.

Tail rotor contacted safety fence while landing on an offshore platform. Safety fence was eight inches high.

As the FAA filed it

TAIL ROTOR CONTACTED SAFETY FENCE WHILE LANDING ON AN OFFSHORE PLATFORM. SAFETY FENCE WAS EIGHT INCHES HIGH.