Grant Aviation Flight In Gippsland GA-8 Lost Rear Passenger Door A door detached from a plane carrying five passengers as it neared Bethel in Western Alaska on Sunday, according to federal aircraft incident records and the aircraft’s operator. Six people, the pilot and five crew members were on board the single-engine Grant Aviation Gippsland GA-8.(file photo). No one was injured.The plane was flying from Eek to Bethel on a regularly scheduled flight, said Dan Knesek, Grant’s vice president of commercial operations. The back left passenger door of the plane became “unlatched” and “departed the aircraft” about five minutes south of Bethel, Knesek said. The pilot safely landed the plane at the Bethel Airport, he said.
