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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Hughes 369E · Mesa, AZ · October 17, 1996

Date
October 17, 1996 · 12:50 local
Place
Mesa, AZ
Airport
Falcon Field Airport
Phase of flight
Prw On Run Landing (Rotorcraft
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N842LA
NTSB investigation
NTSBLAX97LA021
Reported as
Hughes 369E
Reported engine
Allison 250C20B
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,360 total3,000 in this make and model51 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.

Practice autorotation to run on landing skid dug in. Newly sod seeded area was soft.

As the FAA filed it

PRACTICE AUTOROTATION TO RUN ON LANDING SKID DUG IN. NEWLY SOD SEEDED AREA WAS SOFT.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.