- Date
- January 9, 1992, 07:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Seattle, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N91056Cessna 207
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920109005069A
- Case key
- 41640
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Probable cause
The cargo door unlatched for undetermined reasons.
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
The rear half of the aft baggage door of the Cessna freighter opened during descent and slammed against the fuselage skin and distorted a tailcone bulkhead. The reason for the inflight opening was undetermined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N91056
- Reported as
- Cessna 207
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Richardson Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Richardson Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- PDX · Portland, OR
- Flight plan
- IFR
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 27
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,530 total · 35 in this make and model · 3,430 as pilot in command · 218 in the last 90 days · 68 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N91056 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.