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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 230 · Las Vegas, NV · September 3, 1993

Date
September 3, 1993 · 16:30 local
Place
Las Vegas, NV
Phase of flight
Hovering
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N230TX
Reported as
Bell 230
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
19,171 total869 in this make and model114 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.

On pickup to hover aircraft was allowed to drift aft. Main rotor contacted hangar roof. Landed.

As the FAA filed it

ON PICKUP TO HOVER AIRCRAFT WAS ALLOWED TO DRIFT AFT. MAIN ROTOR CONTACTED HANGAR ROOF. LANDED.