Surfers stunned as plane door falls from sky and narrowly misses fisher on NSW beach
Surfers stunned as plane door falls from sky and narrowly misses fisher on NSW beach
Locals who saw the door from a small plane plummet towards a Far South Coast beach, landing just metres from a fisherman, say it was "a crazy situation to witness".
In short:
Surfers say they feared they were about to "witness something pretty horrible" as the door from a plane fell towards South Broulee Beach last week.
The door landed in coastal scrub 20 metres from a fisherman, with the pilot telling airport staff its "latch was not secured properly".
What's next?
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says it will not conduct an investigation as it would be "unlikely to yield any new safety lessons".
it seems like every week, sometimes more than once, i read something that reinforces my decision to never fly again
Just don't fly on these small planes and you'll be fine. It's always the small planes...
The door came from a privately owned American RV-10 four-seater plane and the pilot and passenger landed safely after the incident.
Eurobodalla Shire Council told the ABC in a statement that the pilot told airport staff "the door latch was not secured properly".
It was probably Boeing again.