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.
Narrative: the main rotor blades made contact with the upper deflector of the wire strike protection system. Damage was restricted to the main rotor blades and the deflector.
As the FAA filed it
NARRATIVE: THE MAIN ROTOR BLADES MADE CONTACT WITH THE UPPER DEFLECTOR OF THE WIRE STRIKE PROTECTION SYSTEM. DAMAGE WAS RESTRICTED TO THE MAIN ROTOR BLADES AND THE DEFLECTOR.
Other reports on N403MA · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.