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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell OH13H · Omega, GA · July 9, 1988

Date: July 9, 1988 · 19:00 local
Place: Omega, GA
Phase of flight: Low Level Operations
Operating rules: Agricultural (Part 137)
Operator: KGCG
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N1001K
Reported as: Bell OH13H
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 3,000 total180 in this make and model200 in the last 90 days

N1001KRegistration cancelled Apr 30, 2012 · Texas Helicopter OH-13H/M74AS/N 79 034 · Built 1979 Airframe modelTexas Helicopter OH-13H/M74A Engine modelLycoming VO-435 seriesReciprocating

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.

Making spray passes under wires. Climbed too soon and tail rotor struck wire. Landed hard in adjacent field.

As the FAA filed it

MAKING SPRAY PASSES UNDER WIRES.CLIMBED TOO SOON AND TAIL ROTOR STRUCK WIRE.LANDED HARD IN ADJACENT FIELD.