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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Hughes 269C · Bellflower, CA · July 4, 1991

Date
July 4, 1991 · 14:50 local
Place
Bellflower, CA
Phase of flight
Pwr Off Vert Land/Autorotate
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7504Z
Reported as
Hughes 269C
Reported engine
Lycoming HIO360*
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
223 total223 in this make and model24 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 shut down and nose yawed left. Autorotated to freeway. Fuel injector servo had failed.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE SHUT DOWN AND NOSE YAWED LEFT. AUTOROTATED TO FREEWAY. FUEL INJECTOR SERVO HAD FAILED.