# Incident 20170611008249I: Beech B23, Long Beach, CA, June 11, 2017

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 11, 2017, 16:02 local time
- Place: Long Beach, CA
- Airport: Long Beach /Daugherty Field/
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Climb
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.7670° N, 118.1892° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Long Beach, CA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.7670&lon=-118.1892&mi=10
- Aircraft: N7616R, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N7616R) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech B23 (registry code 1151240, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-b23) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming O&VO-360 series (registry code 41514, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-o-vo-360-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH B23
- Reported engine: LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 175 total, 100 in this make and model
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20170611008249I

## Narrative

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

^ALAN CHANEY, ^THE PILOT IN COMMAND OF N7616R HAD INADVERTANTLY LEFT APPROXIMATELY 12 INCHES OF HIS SEATBELT TAIL HANGING OUT OF THE CLOSED AIRCRAFT DOOR PRIOR TO DEPARTING KFUL FOR A FLIGHT TO KCMA ON 06/11/2017.   AFTER DEPARTING KFUL AT 15:46PST AND CLIMBING TO APPROXIMATELY 45OO', ^MR. CHANEY^ HEARD A LOUD CLANGING SOUND THAT HE ATTRIBUTED TO A POSSIBLE ENGINE PROBLEM.  AS A PRECAUTION FOR AN UNKNOWN PROBLEM, ^MR. CHANEY^ DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AND DIVERTED TO KLGB WHERE HE LANDED SAFELY AT 16:02PST.  UPON THE END OF HIS TAXI TO ROSS AVIATION, IT WAS OBSERVED BY THE RESPONDING AIRPORT FIRE DEPARTMENT CAPTAIN THAT A LENGTH OF SEATBELT WAS HANGING OUT OF THE CLOSED AIRCRAFT DOOR.  THE SEATBEL APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN SLAPPING THE FUSELAGE IN FLIGHT CAUSING THE METALLIC CLANGING NOISE HEARD BY ^MR. CHANEY^.  NO DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT WAS NOTED.

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.

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