- Date
- June 21, 1986, 12:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- St Marys, AK
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4450MCessna 404
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19860621039629I
- Case key
- 4615
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
During the descent into st. mary's, Alaska, the door ajar warning light illuminated. The pilot-in-command checked the rear door and then the front crew door. When the handle of the crew door was retouched it flew open and departed the airplane taking about one square foot of the cabin roof with it. The pilot slowed the airplane down and landed without further incident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4450M
- Reported as
- Cessna 404
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4040833
- Airframe hours
- 1,430
- Engine
- Continental GTSIO-520-M, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Stan Herman, doing business as Herman'S Air, Inc
- Registered owner
- Stan Herman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 16, 1986
- Departed
- BET · Bethel, AK
- Destination
- KSM · St. Marys, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 33
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,300 total · 100 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 90 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.