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94. Aloha Airlines Flight 243 (IATA: AQ243, ICAO: AAH243) was a scheduled Aloha Airlines flight between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii. On April 28, 1988, a Boeing 737-297 serving the flight suffered extensive damage after an explosive decompression in flight, caused by part of the fuselage breaking due to poor maintenance and metal fatigue.
Miracle Landing (also known as Panic in the Open Sky) is a 1990 American made-for-television drama film based on an in-flight accident aboard Aloha Airlines Flight 243 that occurred in April 1988. The Boeing 737-200 was flying from Hilo, Hawaii to Honolulu, Hawaii, when it experienced rapid decompression when a section of the fuselage was torn ...
Website. alohaairlines.com. Aloha Airlines was an airline in the United States that operated passenger flights from 1946 until 2008. [1] It was headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, [2] operating from its hub at Honolulu International Airport (now Daniel K. Inouye International Airport).
The passengers and crew on Aloha Airlines Flight 243 endured a living nightmare when the plane broke apart mid-journey, sending a flight attendant to her death before the pilots executed a ...
April 28 – Aloha Airlines Flight 243 suffers an explosive decompression in flight over the Hawaiian Islands, with the roof blowing off the Boeing 737-200 from the cockpit to just in front of the wings. All 90 passengers and four of the five crew survive; one flight attendant is swept out of the plane and falls to her death.
The Aloha Airlines Flight 243 incident in 1988, involving a Boeing 737-200 that suffered catastrophic cabin failure mid-flight, was primarily caused by the aircraft's continued operation despite having accumulated more than twice the number of flight cycles that the airframe was designed to endure. [4]
With Alaska Airlines temporarily grounding all of its Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft late Friday after a terrifying incident earlier in the day, memories of aviation disasters involving the 737 Max in ...
April 28, 1988 – Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a 737-200, suffered extensive damage after an explosive decompression at an altitude of 24,000 feet (7,300 m), but was able to land safely at Kahului Airport on the island of Maui with one fatality. A flight attendant, Clarabelle (C.B.) Lansing, who was not in restraints at the moment of ...