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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 212 · Sand Point, AK · October 11, 1991

Date
October 11, 1991 · 13:15 local
Place
Sand Point, AK
Airport
Sand Point
Phase of flight
Aerial Taxi, Other Helicopter
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
ERAA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N358EH
Reported as
Bell 212
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
10,600 total400 in this make and model124 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 hover taxiing the main rotor blades struck a metal building. Distracted while trying to avoid parked aircraft

As the FAA filed it

WHILE HOVER TAXIING THE MAIN ROTOR BLADES STRUCK A METAL BUILDING. DISTRACTED WHILE TRYING TO AVOID PARKED AIRCRAFT