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Incident

FAA incident report · Aerosp SA319B · Salt Lake City, UT · May 21, 1982

Date
May 21, 1982 · 22:15 local
Place
Salt Lake City, UT
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Aircraft
N1044N
Reported as
Aerosp SA319B
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
6,723 total1,799 in this make and model91 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.

Pilot's window came open in flight. Closed window. Inadvertently pulled emergency door release. Door blew off.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT'S WINDOW CAME OPEN IN FLIGHT. CLOSED WINDOW. INADVERTENTLY PULLED EMERGENCY DOOR RELEASE. DOOR BLEW OFF.