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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell TAH-1P · Pontiac, MI · April 2, 2007

Date
April 2, 2007 · 13:00 local
Place
Pontiac, MI
Airport
Oakland-Pontiac
Phase of flight
Pwr On Vertical Ldng/Rtrcrft
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2734D
Reported as
Bell TAH1P
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
12,000 total250 in this make and model45 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) According to the instructor pilot, privacy data omitted while flaring to decelerate during a standard autorotation with power recovery, the tail rotor struck the ground due to a higher than normal pitch attitude. The pilot privacy data omitted failed to correct the nose high attitude in a timely manner.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT, ^PRIVACY DATA O^ WHILE FLARING TO DECELERATE DURING A STANDARD AUTOROTATION WITH POWER RECOVERY, THE TAIL ROTOR STRUCK THE GROUND DUE TO A HIGHER THAN NORMAL PITCH ATTITUDE. THE PILOT ^PRIVACY DATA O^ FAILED TO CORRECT THE NOSE HIGH ATTITUDE IN A TIMELY MANNER.