[cashflyer]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Really strange. The PA-46 is a high performance single engined plane, named the Meridian (turboprop and pressurized), Mirage (turbo piston and pressurized), and Matrix (turbo piston). They are a cabin class airplane, which means that the airplane has a single airstair style door that enters into the cabin, like most business jets. If pressurized then the door is likely impossible to open in flight, as it would cause a rapid loss of cabin pressure. The unpressurized version might be possible but difficult to open, but it's not the sort of door that just pops open like in a smaller piston plane.

I agree with this.


The doors do not operate like a Cessna 150/172 style door, and Cessna is the type that most people have familiarity with popping open during certain maneuvers.

The PA-46 clamshell door has pins that extend forward and aft into the fuselage. Somebody had to physically open that door, or else it was never properly closed.