19931208050249I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 206L3 · Georgetown, DE · December 8, 1993

Date
December 8, 1993 · 19:55 local
Place
Georgetown, DE
Airport
Sussex County Airport
Phase of flight
Hovering
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N75SP
Reported as
Bell 206L3
Reported engine
Allison 250C30
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0

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.

Emergency engine shut down at hover. Hard landing on heliport. Found aft short shaft torn into two pieces.

As the FAA filed it

EMERGENCY ENGINE SHUT DOWN AT HOVER.HARD LANDING ON HELIPORT. FOUND AFT SHORT SHAFT TORN INTO TWO PIECES.