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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Hughes 369D · Guilford, CT · September 16, 1988

Date
September 16, 1988 · 12:00 local
Place
Guilford, CT
Phase of flight
Pwr Off Run Land (Autorotation
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N50723
Reported as
Hughes 369D
Reported engine
Allison 250C20B
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,300 total1,000 in this make and model35 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.

Engine power lost over water. Initiated autorotation. Right float failed to inflate. Aircraft rolled and sank.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE POWER LOST OVER WATER. INITIATED AUTOROTATION. RIGHT FLOAT FAILED TO INFLATE. AIRCRAFT ROLLED AND SANK.

Other reports on N50723 · 1

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