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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Hughes 269C · Vero Beach, FL · August 20, 1990

Date
August 20, 1990 · 21:30 local
Place
Vero Beach, FL
Airport
Vero Beach Municipal
Phase of flight
Pwr Off Vert Land/Autorotate
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N427MS
Reported as
Hughes 269C
Reported engine
Lycoming HIO360D1A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
252 total37 in this make and model70 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.

Engine malfunction while hover taxiing to ramp. Hovering autorotation to ground. NR3 cylinder exhaust valve failed.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE MALFUNCTION WHILE HOVER TAXIING TO RAMP. HOVERING AUTOROTATION TO GROUND. NR3 CYLINDER EXHAUST VALVE FAILED.

Other reports on N427MS · 1

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