I looked back at the door and noticed it had come slightly open. The safety latch did not appear to be holding the door closed. At around 500-600 feet AGL, just prior to turning crosswind, the rear door came off of the airplane.
Cracked cylinder ends flight early
When we removed the cowling, a crack in the third cylinder was visible and oil was dripping down onto the turbo and the exhaust.
Pilot takes off with tow bar still attached
The incident could have been avoided with a simple, final walk around the aircraft after having “ground personnel” (my son) move the airplane out of the hangar.
Pilot’s assumption leads to near miss
The 310 announced downwind for Runway YY, but in my mind I was thinking XX since everyone else was using that runway.
A near miss on the runway
My student and I were approximately 10 knots below our rotation speed when I look up and to my left and notice there is an aircraft taking off on Runway 14 and we are on a direct collision course if no action is taken by either pilot.
A valuable lesson
An encounter with wake turbulence from a B737 during an instructional flight shakes up both the student pilot and the CFI.
An accident waiting to happen
Seems like a real dangerous way to fly — crossing midfield below pattern altitude in the wrong direction while someone is in the downwind within 500 feet of your position, only to do a 180 turn and cross back across midfield. I didn’t get the impression he felt he did anything wrong or unsafe. Seems like an accident waiting to happen with this individual.
A near miss and a mishap with an iPad creates problems for Baron pilot
A near-miss in the pattern, an angry controller, and a mishap with an iPad breaking the pilot’s headset leads the tower to call the authorities once the pilot lands. “He wanted me in jail,” the pilot says in his ASRS report.
Dramatic loss of power after cyclinder splits in half
There was violent vibrations inside the cabin with occasional clouds of smoke rising over the windshield.