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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Snias AS350B · Lihue, HI · June 11, 1995

Date
June 11, 1995 · 11:50 local
Place
Lihue, HI
Airport
Lihue Airport
Phase of flight
Idling Rotors
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
ILNA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N666MP
Reported as
Snias AS350B
Reported engine
TMECA ARRIEL1
People aboard
6
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,560 total426 in this make and model264 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.

Wheel chair passenger embarked leaning wheel chair to drift into idling tail rotor. Debris struck a passenger.

As the FAA filed it

WHEEL CHAIR PASSENGER EMBARKED LEANING WHEEL CHAIR TO DRIFT INTO IDLING TAIL ROTOR. DEBRIS STRUCK A PASSENGER.