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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Aerosp AS355F · Port Fourchon, LA · February 1, 1989

Date: February 1, 1989 · 07:08 local
Place: Port Fourchon, LA
Phase of flight: Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator: ALGA
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N5787E
Reported as: Aerosp AS355F
Reported engine: Allison 250C20F
People aboard: 5
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 12,090 total839 in this make and model88 in the last 90 days

N5787ERegistration cancelled Feb 15, 2002 · Aerospatiale AS 355F1S/N 5058 · Built 1981 Airframe modelAerospatiale AS 355F1 Engine modelAllison 250-C20 seriesTurbo-prop

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.

Vibration during climb. Slowed, descended, then returned. Found cowling damage and lower half of cowling missing.

As the FAA filed it

VIBRATION DURING CLIMB. SLOWED, DESCENDED, THEN RETURNED. FOUND COWLING DAMAGE AND LOWER HALF OF COWLING MISSING.