ASRS Reports

I was looking out the left window and noticed an aircraft whiz from underneath and behind me and begin a turn inland. It is hard to judge the distance, but he was way too close for comfort.

The lights border the grass runway, rather than the asphalt runway that I meant to land on. As a result, I landed on the grass runway, when I expected to land on asphalt. This was potentially dangerous.

Lost power at approximately 1,000 feet toward end of climbout to remain in pattern for touch and goes. I checked for any remedial problems and saw none, but noticed my prop was not turning.

I concluded that it would take longer than the flight I had planned for any potential side effects to develop, so I launched on a four-hour flight. Towards the end of this flight, I made an unscheduled fuel stop and started to develop a mild headache.

All of the sudden, without any warning, the pilot side door blew off of the aircraft and completely detached.

While cruising at FL180, an unknown foreign object impacted the windshield, fracturing the outer glass layer.

I immediately pulled the throttle to idle and the prop completely stopped. That’s when I knew this was real.

I hear the Traffic Alert start, which isn’t uncommon for aircraft 500 feet apart in this airspace, and as I look up Aircraft Y tells me he’s responding to an RA and his voice is clearly strained. I incorrectly said what I was thinking, which was “Aircraft X what are you doing! Climb immediately to 5,500” as I’m watching him descend through 5,200 feet right on top of Aircraft Y. He responds that he “thought they were on a collision course.” To which I informed him that his actions caused the collision course.