The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), citing several instances of explosive openings of doors on parked airplanes, including a fatal accident in Finland in 2018, has recommended that operators and maintenance providers act to reduce the risk of such events in their operations.
The Finland accident, which occurred Jan. 4, 2018, in Kittilä, killed the captain of a Gulfstream G150 business jet when a fuselage door blew open and he was knocked to the ground. The blast also injured a cabin assistant and caused substantial damage to the cabin.
EASA issued recommendations Tuesday in the form of Safety Information Bulletin 2019-02.
The bulletin noted that the main factor associated with the explosive door openings has been “inadvertent development of an excessive diff…
