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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 206L-1 · Anchorage, AK · March 26, 1990

Date
March 26, 1990 · 19:00 local
Place
Anchorage, AK
Airport
Anchorage International
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
Rotorcraft external load (Part 133)
Operator
ELOA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N93TA
Reported as
Bell 206L1
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,948 total3,000 in this make and model110 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.

While sling loading,a Cessna tail load became unstable. Load struck the 206. Released load. No action plan on file.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE SLING LOADING,A CESSNA TAIL LOAD BECAME UNSTABLE.LOAD STRUCK THE 206. RELEASED LOAD. NO ACTION PLAN ON FILE.