# Incident 19960728027839I: Bell 222U, Oceanside, CA, July 28, 1996

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 28, 1996, 17:42 local time
- Place: Oceanside, CA
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Pwr On Vertical Ldng/Rtrcrft
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: MYSA
- Location: 33.1959° N, 117.3795° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Oceanside, CA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.1959&lon=-117.3795&mi=10
- Aircraft: N403MA, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N403MA-2010-10-21) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Bell 222U (registry code 1182140, https://openairdocs.org/model/bell-222u) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BELL 222U
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 10,700 total, 320 in this make and model, 29 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19960728027839I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

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.

- [Incident 20040812021679I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20040812021679I), Aug 12, 2004: Bell 222U (N403MA), Rialto, CA, Minor damage. (-23) On August 12, 2004, at the Rialto airport, Rialto, California, a bht 222U, operated by lifenet sustained minor damage after the main rotor blades…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.