42.3584° N, 71.0598° WPlaced by OpenAirDocs: center of Boston, MA, within about 6 miles.Open in the map
Date
December 28, 1988 · 07:30 local
Place
Boston, MA
Phase of flight
Pwr Off Run Land (Autorotation
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N1602C
Reported as
Hughes 369E
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total500 in this make and model100 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 in flight. Precautionary landing. Found a detached pulley belt on main transmission drive shaft.
As the FAA filed it
SEVERE VIBRATION IN FLIGHT. PRECAUTIONARY LANDING. FOUND A DETACHED PULLEY BELT ON MAIN TRANSMISSION DRIVE SHAFT.