19880602031919I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Hiller UH-12C · Colts Neck, NJ · June 2, 1988

Date
June 2, 1988 · 18:00 local
Place
Colts Neck, NJ
Phase of flight
Pwr Off Run Land (Autorotation
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N5320V
Reported as
Hiller UH12C
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,000 total25 in this make and model50 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.

Severe vibration inflight. Main rotor failed, tail rotor mssing and bubble destroyed. Either in air or landing.

As the FAA filed it

SEVERE VIBRATION INFLIGHT. MAIN ROTOR FAILED, TAIL ROTOR MSSING AND BUBBLE DESTROYED. EITHER IN AIR OR LANDING.

Other reports on N5320V · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.