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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtr AC-MT · Barnwell, SC · June 19, 2000

Date
June 19, 2000 · 13:15 local
Place
Barnwell, SC
Airport
Barnwell County Airport
Phase of flight
Autorot Descent (Rotorcraft)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8171X
Reported as
Amtr Acmt
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,100 total270 in this make and model60 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.

(-23)During cruise flight the panatary reduction gear box failed. The pilot auto-rotated and the aircraft sustained minor damage to the main rotor and left landing gear during landing. (New horizons) planatary reduction unit.

As the FAA filed it

(-23)DURING CRUISE FLIGHT THE PANATARY REDUCTION GEAR BOX FAILED. THE PILOT AUTO-ROTATED AND THE AIRCRAFT SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE TO THE MAIN ROTOR AND LEFT LANDING GEAR DURING LANDING. (NEW HORIZONS) PLANATARY REDUCTION UNIT.