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Old 19th Mar 2021, 10:31
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First I want to reiterate my early comments with respect to an instructor telling a student to abort a takeoff if a cabin door opens “because the door could fall off and hit the aircraft”. I think this is utter rubbish and needs to get stamped out now.
LOL.

The logic was: If it opens, especially if it opens after you already checked it was properly shut, something might have broken that could lead to the door coming off in flight.

​​It's not gonna cost anything to stop and investigate - and it's not rubbish, as can be seen in the case of G-ASOS last year, where the baggage door wrapped itself around the tailplane and created control difficulty.

I'd rather abort than be a test pilot.

Obviously, the situation is different if you don't have enough runway to stop... but I thought there was enough common sense on this forum that I didn't have to point that out.

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