<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1586962, October 2018

Air carrier flight crew left key in door and it may have been ingested into left engine during cruise flight.

Attributes
ACN	1586962
Time
Date	201810
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.ARTCC
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Cessna Citation Sovereign (C680)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Turbine Engine
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

After takeoff from ZZZ; we were being vectored for our climb and were kept on a speed restriction. Climbing through about 17;000 feet; the speed restriction was removed and we heard a noise coming from the cabin. Soon; we realized [the] cabin door key had been left in the door. Noise lasted only a few minutes followed by an engine whine in the left engine. There were no other secondary indications. [We] chose to land in ZZZ1 which was only 15min away. Landed without incident.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier flight crew left key in door and it may have been ingested into left engine during cruise flight.

Narrative: After takeoff from ZZZ; we were being vectored for our climb and were kept on a speed restriction. Climbing through about 17;000 feet; the speed restriction was removed and we heard a noise coming from the cabin. Soon; we realized [the] cabin door key had been left in the door. Noise lasted only a few minutes followed by an engine whine in the left engine. There were no other secondary indications. [We] chose to land in ZZZ1 which was only 15min away. Landed without incident.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.