<<A not entirely dissimilar incident happened on a King Air approaching a London airport a few decades ago.>>

I know my memory is going, but I sure don't recall that..

Yes, it's true about occuring in UK, and the pilot at the time is a friend of mine. It was to an airfield rather than an airport.

I believe that the lady who jumped in Britain was a reasonably wealthy lady with terminal cancer, if my memory serves me correctly.

"He praised the pilot for his quick-thinking decision to land the aircraft."


....as opposed to doing what else?

I stand corrected.

Strange, I never had heard of any past roughly 1985 - this info should be distributed to KA operators.

BTW, has the door be found? And a cause determined?

All this talk of jumping and leaping is quite bizarre. If you are holding on to the door handle when the door opens you are going to be thrown out.

There is a safety bellows system in the door latch mechanism but at max diff about 50 pounds of force will override it.

It was Sacramento, Con. She landed in a community garden near SAC (the airport not the VOR) as I recall. Seems to me it was an Intel or HP corporate aircraft on its way to SJC, but I'm too lazy to look it up at the moment...

Dave

I don't see any reason to doubt the door was locked. The passenger tried several times to open the door and failed. Unlocked doors tend to open themselves without any help.

The aircraft was depressurized in an effort to get the passenger under control.

User Name:Ridley, RodDate:2009/04/20Further Action Required:No O.P.I.:System SafetyNarrative:UPDATE TSB reported that the Adlair Aviation Beech 200, registration C-GCYN, was en route Yellowknife to Cambridge Bay, on a medical charter, when one of the two passengers on board left their seat and became disruptive. An emergency was declared and the cabin was depressurized in a effort to get the male passenger under control. The disruptive passenger subsequently opened the main cabin door and exited the aircraft. The incident occurred approximately 114 NM southwest of Cambridge Bay, at FL 230. The aircraft continued to Cambridge Bay with the cabin door open, and landed without further incident. The male passenger is presumed deceased; the flight crew and the remaining passenger were uninjured. The Cambridge Bay detachment of the RCMP is investigating the occurrence.

Um, I do believe that's exactly what the CADORS update says.