33.8305° N, 118.3566° WPlaced by OpenAirDocs: center of Torrance, CA, within about 6 miles.Open in the map
Date
January 29, 1993 · 16:00 local
Place
Torrance, CA
Airport
Torrance Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Pwr Off Vert Land/Autorotate
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Operator
EW3A
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2302L
Reported as
Robsin R22BETA
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
278 total268 in this make and model56 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.
Made a hard landing on an auto rotation landing. Main rotor blades and tail boom damaged.
As the FAA filed it
MADE A HARD LANDING ON AN AUTO ROTATION LANDING. MAIN ROTOR BLADES AND TAIL BOOM DAMAGED.