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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech E-55 · Minden, NV · November 22, 2004

Date
November 22, 2004 · 13:00 local
Place
Minden, NV
Airport
Douglas County Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N81WR
Reported as
Beech E55
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,700 total1,800 in this make and model30 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.

(-23) The cabin door popped open during climb-out, at approximately 300 feet AGL, after which, the aircraft experienced elevator flutter and a dramatic rolling tendency. During landing, the right wingtip scraped the ground and right propeller tips struck a runway light and were damaged.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) THE CABIN DOOR POPPED OPEN DURING CLIMB-OUT, AT APPROXIMATELY 300 FEET AGL, AFTER WHICH, THE AIRCRAFT EXPERIENCED ELEVATOR FLUTTER AND A DRAMATIC ROLLING TENDENCY. DURING LANDING, THE RIGHT WINGTIP SCRAPED THE GROUND AND RIGHT PROPELLER TIPS STRUCK A RUNWAY LIGHT AND WERE DAMAGED.