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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Enstrm 280C · Florence, WI · July 1, 1989

Date
July 1, 1989 · 12:15 local
Place
Florence, WI
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N51782
Reported as
Enstrm 280C
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
555 total305 in this make and model36 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.

Landed on water. Taxied near dock . Waiting for turbo to cool aircraft drifted toward dock. Tail rotor hit dock.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED ON WATER. TAXIED NEAR DOCK . WAITING FOR TURBO TO COOL AIRCRAFT DRIFTED TOWARD DOCK. TAIL ROTOR HIT DOCK.