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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA60601 · Midland, TX · April 19, 1993

Date
April 19, 1993 · 15:30 local
Place
Midland, TX
Airport
Midland Airpark Airport
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N90432
Reported as
Piper PA60601
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
22,000 total550 in this make and model8 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.

Upper cabin door departed aircraft on climbout. Returned. Landed safely. Unable to find door.

As the FAA filed it

UPPER CABIN DOOR DEPARTED AIRCRAFT ON CLIMBOUT. RETURNED. LANDED SAFELY. UNABLE TO FIND DOOR.