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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Hiller UH-12L4 · Ponce, Puerto Rico · May 15, 1998

Date
May 15, 1998 · 10:00 local
Place
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Airport
Mercedita
Phase of flight
To Running(Helicopter/Vtol Ac)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N90487
Reported as
Hiller UH12L4
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,000 total4,000 in this make and model50 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.

Lost lift after take off possibly due clutch malfunction dropping from 30FT AGL landing hard.

As the FAA filed it

LOST LIFT AFTER TAKE OFF POSSIBLY DUE CLUTCH MALFUNCTION DROPPING FROM 30FT AGL LANDING HARD.