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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Bell 206B · Coeur D Alene, ID · May 17, 1990

Date
May 17, 1990 · 11:30 local
Place
Coeur D Alene, ID
Airport
Coeur D Alene Air Term Airport
Phase of flight
Sfl Autorotation
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Operator
SCFA
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N53MA
Reported as
Bell 206B
Reported engine
Allison 250C20B
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
7,000 total5,000 in this make and model

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.

Examinee allowed rotor RPM to decay and landed in a yaw on a simulated tailrotor fail landing. Spike knock damage.

As the FAA filed it

EXAMINEE ALLOWED ROTOR RPM TO DECAY AND LANDED IN A YAW ON A SIMULATED TAILROTOR FAIL LANDING. SPIKE KNOCK DAMAGE.