19941022042699I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Enstrm 280C · Centerville, OH · October 22, 1994

Date
October 22, 1994 · 15:50 local
Place
Centerville, OH
Phase of flight
To Vertical (Helicopter Only)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N829PT
Reported as
Enstrm 280C
Reported engine
Lycoming HIO360*
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,750 total40 in this make and model40 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.

Allowed rotor speed decay. On climbout further decay to miss wires. Hard landing. No low RPM warning light or horn.

As the FAA filed it

ALLOWED ROTOR SPEED DECAY. ON CLIMBOUT FURTHER DECAY TO MISS WIRES. HARD LANDING. NO LOW RPM WARNING LIGHT OR HORN.