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Close cockpit doors correctly.


Pilots, crew chiefs, maintenance personnel, and flight crews, listen up! Closing Black Hawk Black Hawk

(born 1767, Sauk Sautenuk, Va.—died Oct. 3, 1838, village on the Des Moines River, Iowa, U.S.) Sauk Indian leader. Long antagonistic to whites, Black Hawk was driven into Iowa from Illinois in 1831.
 cockpit This article is about the flight deck of an aircraft. For other uses, see Cockpit (disambiguation).

A cockpit is the area usually nearer the front of a piloted aircraft from which a pilot controls the aircraft.
 doors wrong causes cracks around the door and handle mechanism.

The proper way to close cockpit doors is to grasp the handle and slightly push it to make the door lock.

If you've been locking the door handle latches from the inside by slapping slapping,
n massage technique that uses the flat palms of the hands percussively; a form of tapotement. See also tapotement.
 or punching the door handle latch mechanism, then Stop! Slapping, punching or otherwise hitting the door handle from the inside to lock or secure the cockpit doors causes cracks or holes.

Once a crack is too big, the door is considered unserviceable. Then your bird is NMC NMC Nursing & Midwifery Council (UK)
NMC NSSDC Master Catalog (NASA)
NMC Northwestern Michigan College (Traverse City, Michigan)
NMC National Meteorological Center
 until the door is replaced or repaired.

Slapping, punching or hitting may be a quick and easy way to follow the DOOR SECURE step in the TM checklist, but it's not good for the cockpit doors.
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Publication:PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
Date:Nov 1, 2003
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