Accident Aerospatiale AS 350B VH-SRB, Friday 22 June 1990

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Date:	Friday 22 June 1990
Time:	10:30
Type:	Aerospatiale AS 350B
Owner/operator:
Registration:	VH-SRB
MSN:	1106
Year of manufacture:	1979
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Category:	Accident
Location:	Whistle Duck Creek, NT - Australia
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Survey
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Investigating agency:	BASI
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Shortly before touchdown, the aircraft encountered a heavy wind gust, which caused the tail boom to swing and the tail rotor struck a small cairn of rocks. The tail boom, tail rotor and drive train sustained damage.

Accident investigation: