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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 206B · Intracoastal Ci, LA · August 24, 1988

Date: August 24, 1988 · 15:45 local
Place: Intracoastal Ci, LA
Phase of flight: Sfl Autorotation
Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator: HEEA
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N2275Y
Reported as: Bell 206B
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 6,995 total809 in this make and model69 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.

Hard landing while demonstrating autorotation. One main rotor blade hit tail rotor drive shaft.

As the FAA filed it

HARD LANDING WHILE DEMONSTRATING AUTOROTATION. ONE MAIN ROTOR BLADE HIT TAIL ROTOR DRIVE SHAFT.