On april 28 1988 a boeing 737 297 serving the flight suffered extensive damage after an explosive decompression in flight but was able to land safely at kahului airport on maui there was one fatality flight attendant clarabelle lansing who was ejected from the.
Plane roof ripped off movie.
Passenger gayle yammamoto saw a crack in the ceiling with daylight shining through prior to take off and did not tell anyone.
Looking up she could see the sky through a hole torn in the cabin roof.
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Aloha airlines flight 243 iata.
A gunshot like sound woke brenda reese as her southwest airlines flight cruised at 36 000 feet.
Luckily in reality small damage to fuselage won t have such d.
Aah243 was a scheduled aloha airlines flight between hilo and honolulu in hawaii.
Roof of aloha airlines plane rips off midflight on april 28 1988 an aloha airlines boeing 737 lost a section of its roof at 24 000 feet between hilo hawaii and honolulu killing a.
As aloha 243 abruptly lost altitude passengers began singing hymns and bracing for a crash.
You ve probably seen hollywood movies where a hole in the side of a plane causes utter chaos.
Not rated 1h 25min drama tv movie 11 february 1990 a passenger jet loses a portion of its fuselage in flight over hawaii and is forced to make an emergency landing.
I was quite sure we weren t going to make it said becklin a university of hawaii astronomer who told of ducking his head to avoid the debris streaming.
Investigators found that the aircraft hull probably failed according to design with only a 10 inch by 10 inch hole initially developing but the rush of air out of the cabin 700 mph sucked lansing into the hole and temporarily plugged it causing the massive loss of the outer skin of the jet.
In theory a boeing 737 with roughly one third of its roof blown off should not be able to fly.