CESSNA REAR DOOR OPENING - the OLD IS NEW AGAIN
In July 2021 the ATSB released a final report on the issues with opening the rear door of a Cessna 206, VH-AEE, that made a splash landing in the sea off Fraser Island on 29 January 2020. Fortunately the two occupants survived.
The ATSB recommended that CASA make contact with the FAA and Cessna to get the POH re-written to reflect the information that with the flaps down more than 10 degrees the forward rear door could not be opened.
All very interesting but maybe the recommendation is just a little late.
In the CASA publication, Flight Safety Australia, dated November 1998, Page 32, the CASA crashworthiness Specialist, Bruce Byers, wrote about the issues of the forward rear door in a U206 model Cessna 206 in a ditching and problems for the rear pax to open the door and exit the machine.
Me thinks that the ATSB recommendation to CASA is about 23 years late with CASA already aware of the issue.
But nothing has been done in the interval! Old information just recycled. But no action.