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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Enstrm 280C · Lewiston, ME · May 7, 1989

Date: May 7, 1989 · 13:30 local
Place: Lewiston, ME
Phase of flight: Idling Rotors
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N5691W
Reported as: Enstrm 280C
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 385 total126 in this make and model5 in the last 90 days

N5691WRegistration cancelled May 19, 2015 · Enstrom Helicopter 280CS/N 1176 · Built 1979 Airframe modelEnstrom Helicopter 280C Engine modelLycoming HI0-360 seriesTurbo-shaft

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.

Landed in clearing, got out to survey area with idling rotors. Tailboom hit ground severing tail rotor drive shaft.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED IN CLEARING, GOT OUT TO SURVEY AREA WITH IDLING ROTORS. TAILBOOM HIT GROUND SEVERING TAIL ROTOR DRIVE SHAFT.