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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bell 230 · Springfield, IL · November 17, 2011

Date
November 17, 2011 · 21:30 local
Place
Springfield, IL
Airport
Memorial Medical Center - Spri
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
O84A
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N880SF
Reported as
Bell 230
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0

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.

After landing at the heliport associated with memorial Medical center- Springfield, IL (54LL), the left main landing gear assembly broke through a grated roof drain cover which resulted in the aircraft listing left and rotating counter clockwise around the left landing gear which was lodged in the hole.

As the FAA filed it

AFTER LANDING AT THE HELIPORT ASSOCIATED WITH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER- SPRINGFIELD, IL (54LL), THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR ASSEMBLY BROKE THROUGH A GRATED ROOF DRAIN COVER WHICH RESULTED IN THE AIRCRAFT LISTING LEFT AND ROTATING COUNTER CLOCKWISE AROUND THE LEFT LANDING GEAR WHICH WAS LODGED IN THE HOLE.

Other reports on N880SF · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.