# Incident 20160603009529I: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429, Ft. Worth, TX, June 3, 2016

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 3, 2016, 17:24 local time
- Place: Ft. Worth, TX
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Other, Specify
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 32.7254° N, 97.3208° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Fort Worth, TX, within about 11 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=32.7254&lon=-97.3208&mi=10
- Aircraft: N429BH, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N429BH) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429 (registry code 1182158, https://openairdocs.org/model/bell-helicopter-textron-canada-429) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D1/D2 (registry code 52299, https://openairdocs.org/engine/pratt-whitney-canada-pw207d1-d2) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA 429
- Reported engine: P&W CANADA PW207D1
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport, commercial pilot, flight instructor
- Pilot flight hours: 5,300 total, 195 in this make and model, 35 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20160603009529I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

INSTRUCTOR PILOT AND CUSTOMER PILOT PERFORMING RECURRENT TRAINING MANEUVERS. THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT DEMONSTRATED AUTOROTATION MANUEVERS FOLLOWED BY REPETITIONS BY THE CUSTOMER PILOT (NO FULL TOUCHDOWNS). PREVIOUSLY PERFORMED FOUR STRAIGHT IN AUTOROTATIONS WITH NO ISSUES, THEN PERFORMED THREE 180 DEGREE AUTOROTATIONS (CUSTOMER PILOT FLYING). ON FOURTH 180 AUTOROTATION WITH CUSTOMER PILOT FLYING NEITHER PILOT NOTICED THE THROTTLES WERE STILL IN IDLE DURING THE MANUEVER. WHEN THE AIRCRAFT WAS FLARED THE NOSE DROPPED AND THE PILOTS MADE A RUN ON LANDING, SKIDDING APPROX 25 FEET. ON EGRESS OF THE AIRCRAFT THEY NOTICED THE MAIN ROTOR HAD CONTACTED THE TAIL ROTOR DRIVE SHAFT AND COVER AND THE AFT CROSS TUBE WAS SPLAYED WIDER THAN NORMAL.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.