A door that fell off a small plane has been found on a Monterey motel roof.
The Salinas Californian reports the door fell from a Beechcraft KingAir twin-turboprop plane that took offfrom Monterey RegionalAirport Thursday afternoon. The pilot heard a pop and turned around the land.
He realized the door was missing when he was back on the ground.
But the door wasn’t discovered until Fridaymorning when a contractor workingoutside the motel noticed it.
The front desk manager at the El Castell Motel says no one heard the 75-pound door crash into the tile roof because the room below was unoccupied.
The National TransportationSafety Board willexamine the door and the plane to determine why it came loose and fell.
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