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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Eurocopter AS365N3 · Belair, MD · February 20, 2012

Date
February 20, 2012 · 22:05 local
Place
Belair, MD
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N82MD
Reported as
Eurocopter AS365N3
Reported engine
Turbomeca ARRIEL-2C
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Commercial pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
2,800 total650 in this make and model25 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.

Third party reports indicate that the aircraft had flames coming from the right engine during landing at a ground vehicle accident site. The fire was extinquished by fire fighters at the scene. Numerous attempts at obtaining pilot reports from the Maryland state police were unsuccessful.

As the FAA filed it

THIRD PARTY REPORTS INDICATE THAT THE AIRCRAFT HAD FLAMES COMING FROM THE RIGHT ENGINE DURING LANDING AT A GROUND VEHICLE ACCIDENT SITE. THE FIRE WAS EXTINQUISHED BY FIRE FIGHTERS AT THE SCENE.NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS AT OBTAINING PILOT REPORTS FROM THE MARYLAND STATE POLICE WERE UNSUCCESSFUL.