# Incident 19890526027469I: Bell 212, Homer, AK, May 26, 1989

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 26, 1989, 14:15 local time
- Place: Homer, AK
- Airport: Homer
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Pwr Off Run Land (Autorotation
- Operating rules: Rotorcraft external load (Part 133)
- Operator: ALGA
- Location: 59.6455° N, 151.4766° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at HOMER (HOM), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=59.6455&lon=-151.4766&mi=10
- Aircraft: N93AL, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N93AL-1994-03-18) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Bell 212 (registry code 1181420, https://openairdocs.org/model/bell-212) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BELL 212
- Reported engine: PWA PT6T3
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 16,000 total, 4,000 in this make and model, 150 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19890526027469I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ATTEMPTING TO LOWER AND RELEASE SLING LOAD ENCOUNTERED TURBULENCE. TAIL ROTOR TOUCHED BRUSH AND WAS DENTED.

## Other reports on N93AL (1)

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

- [Incident 19910627044199I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19910627044199I), Jun 27, 1991: Bell 212 (N93AL), Dohor, KU. Fuel exhaustion. Autorotated to a road. Found a faulty fuel quantity gauge.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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