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Incident

FAA incident report · Enstrm 280C · West Chicago, IL · July 1, 1991

Date: July 1, 1991 · 14:45 local
Place: West Chicago, IL
Phase of flight: Pwr Off Vert Land/Autorotate
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft: N51689
Reported as: Enstrm 280C
Reported engine: Lycoming HIO360*
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 99 total75 in this make and model20 in the last 90 days

N51689Registration cancelled Dec 31, 2002 · Enstrom Helicopter 280CS/N 1115 Airframe modelEnstrom Helicopter 280C

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.

Vibration after takeoff. Elected to land off airport. Bearing on main rotor grip had failed.

As the FAA filed it

VIBRATION AFTER TAKEOFF. ELECTED TO LAND OFF AIRPORT. BEARING ON MAIN ROTOR GRIP HAD FAILED.

Other reports on N51689 · 1

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

Accident 20020825024239AEastmanville, MI(-23) Pilot while flying low over a river struck wire that was strung across river and not visible to the pilot. At time of accident pilot was flying west and the setting sun was obscuring his vision. [privacy data omitted]Aug 25, 2002 · Destroyed