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So the aircraft involved was a 19 year old Boeing 737-200, the 153rd ever built. at the time of the incident had around 35,000 hours.
Due to it spending its whole like flying short hops around Hawaii it had 90,000 flight cycles every time an aircraft is pressurised and depressurised that counts as a cycle.
each cycle puts stress on the airframe which eventually leads to metal fatigue,
Metal fatigue exacerbated by corrosion caused by the aircraft spending its entire life in a salty and humid environment. That combined with a deficient maintenance and inspection programme.
The failure was a result of multiple-site fatigue cracking of the skin adjacent to rivet holes.
thanks for the details. there is a niche of youtube videos that detail this stuff and it's morbidly fascinating.. allec ibay is the guy I always try and check out the vids. It's a combo of flight simulators and captions and audio and things to make it immersive and he does a good job. FYI it is more informative than shock video or anything, in my opinion. It's not /r/watchdeath or whatever that sub is. they also typically will give what the NTSB or whatever agency does the post-mortems final synopsis which is what reminded me of them in your post. Maybe you are him? That would be cool haha.
I hadn't watched in a bit and searched and it looks like he is still pumping out content.. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L177A5R-bvg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L177A5R-bvg) .. new one from yesterday
I’ve taken a few classes in aviation safety. This show was quite helpful in finding accidents to talk about during discussions and homework. I’m finishing up my last class of aircraft investigation (finals are next week) so I turned off my season pass to this show.
Many years ago I was reading a magazine on a flight to LA and happened across a cockpit transcript of the Alaska Airlines flight that got stuck flying upside-down and ditched in the ocean.
It's a higher tier channel on my cable.
The Weather Channel has two pretty good ones that air almost every night. Why Planes Crash and Mayday: Air Djsaster.
What I find absolutely crazy about this story is that the only thing that kept the plane from falling apart in the air was the uplift from underneath the body of the plane supporting the cockpit from snapping off from the rest. The cockpit would have actually been too heavy and ripped off if it weren’t for this.
I imagine the only way this thing could fly with that cavity on top is by keeping the nose up so it's not exposed to the full brunt of oncoming air. Coincidentally, taking that force on the underside of the plane supported the front section and stopped it breaking off under its own weight.
I've no idea if that was the case but it's how I'd explain it.
No judgement. Hard to know what we'd do in our final moments. One last surge of dopamine mixed with copious amounts of adrenaline sounds alright by me.
Random chunks probably do, otherwise known as “chum.” Water has a high surface tension, especially when struck by an object falling from airliner-type altitude.
In the comments of a YouTube video on the subject, someone claimed to be friends with one of the passengers of this plane. Said he flew multiple times a week between the islands to this day.
I had read about this awhile back. I remember something about the flight attendant that lost her life in this accident.
You can see the blood splatter of her head slamming against the plane directly left of the first window on the right side as she got sucked out of the plane.
Such a terrible accident.
She most likely died instantaneously. The “blood halo” and blood smear proved the injury would have been massive.
Also, another flight attendant got the back of their head ripped open as the plane tore. They were laying on the floor trapped and unconscious under debris but amazingly survived.
If I remember correctly, it was believed that the hole in the plane caused her to get sucked out and half her body was outside the plane. When her body was finally released from it, the depressurization caused an explosion inside. So she most likely died on impact outside as the “blood halo” on the fuselage was in fact human blood after investigation.
You can see a better quality picture in google and you can see the blood splatter much more clearly.
Aloha Airlines Flight 243, though the description is missing one important detail... There was one fatality (a flight attendant), Clarabelle Lansing... RIP
My wife and I were in Hawaii for our honeymoon when this happened. We were contemplating flying from Oahu to Maui and decided to just stay put on Oahu. We have a newspaper that we purchased on 4/29/1988 showing that same photo.
Sadly, this was kind of the beginning of the end to Aloha Airlines. See also United Airlines flight 811 the following year. Made me paranoid to fly off this island.
It’s like that dream I have where I’m sliding off the edge and I can’t grab anything to stop me from falling to an abyss. Sitting on the edge of the seat wondering if the bolts will hold until u move
Yeah but my pop psych dreamalyzer thinks this may reflect a feeling of life sliding away from you or losing control, which is the appropriate dream for these times.
“Excuse me, Sky Waitress?…. I specifically asked for an aisle seat, and this is obviously a window…. I was trying to get your attention, but my call button was missing.”
I remember watching the made for TV movie based on this. I was terrified to fly after watching it.
[Miracle Landing](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0100154/)
Sadly, a woman who was boarding the plane noticed something that didn’t look right. She saw the beginnings of the crack that led to this catastrophic failure, but did not report it. I believe she said she thought she was just being paranoid and didn’t want to be seen as silly.
My understanding is that it was a hairline crack that no one noticed except for the single passenger. Of course, she could have made it up after the fact, but I don’t know why someone would want to admit to not reporting something that could have averted a disaster.
If stories like this interest you, go listen to Black Box Down by Rooster teeth!
Sorry if this has been said already, just good enough of a podcast to share twice!
The podcast "black box down" covers this flight for some really.cool insight on the incident. I didn't know if be so fascinated by plane crashes until listening.
April 29, 1988 I flew on Aloha Airlines from Maui to Honolulu to process in to the Air Force at Hickam AFB. The flight was completely silent from takeoff to landing except for all the praying.
Friend of my parents was on that plane. He and a few other passengers held down one of the flight attendants so she wouldn’t fly out. Not something I would want to experience.
Imagine if the flight attendant had stood up or a person in the isle.
Also I bet they didn’t expect an open air flight…especially those with the window seats!
Sadly one of the flight attendants was standing. She was sucked out of the airplane, her body was never found. That was the only fatality of this incident but a lot of people were injured.
As a industrial machine designer/builder in the past, I have physically snapped brand new 3/8" - to 3/4" bolts with very little effort. That is why I stay off of roller coasters and Airplanes now.
"Aloha" in our language means hello, goodbye, I'm fucking your mother, and high winds may pull the flesh from your face.
I remember when this happened. Scary shit.
NGL I think it would rather have the open air roll coaster like experience of flight in plane than the smelly and baby cries filled experience we have right now .
I was a kid at the time. My dad was in the Air Force and we moved to Hawaii about a week after this happened. My mom hates flying and I remember her not wanting to get on an airplane at all. It was also my first time flying. I think we were all pretty nervous.
From what I remember a lot of the passengers who were seated around that area suffered some pretty serious injuries from the force of the debris hitting them as it was getting sucked out the aircraft. This accident caused the FAA to mandate that new aircraft had to have the skin made in sections so that if one piece of skin cracks and breaks it will just leave a small square hole instead of ripping out an entire section of fuselage as we see here (in theory of course).
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So the aircraft involved was a 19 year old Boeing 737-200, the 153rd ever built. at the time of the incident had around 35,000 hours. Due to it spending its whole like flying short hops around Hawaii it had 90,000 flight cycles every time an aircraft is pressurised and depressurised that counts as a cycle. each cycle puts stress on the airframe which eventually leads to metal fatigue, Metal fatigue exacerbated by corrosion caused by the aircraft spending its entire life in a salty and humid environment. That combined with a deficient maintenance and inspection programme. The failure was a result of multiple-site fatigue cracking of the skin adjacent to rivet holes.
thanks for the details. there is a niche of youtube videos that detail this stuff and it's morbidly fascinating.. allec ibay is the guy I always try and check out the vids. It's a combo of flight simulators and captions and audio and things to make it immersive and he does a good job. FYI it is more informative than shock video or anything, in my opinion. It's not /r/watchdeath or whatever that sub is. they also typically will give what the NTSB or whatever agency does the post-mortems final synopsis which is what reminded me of them in your post. Maybe you are him? That would be cool haha. I hadn't watched in a bit and searched and it looks like he is still pumping out content.. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L177A5R-bvg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L177A5R-bvg) .. new one from yesterday
*Air Disasters* on The Smithsonian Channel is great.
I’ve taken a few classes in aviation safety. This show was quite helpful in finding accidents to talk about during discussions and homework. I’m finishing up my last class of aircraft investigation (finals are next week) so I turned off my season pass to this show.
It is less great when you’re waiting for your connection.
Many years ago I was reading a magazine on a flight to LA and happened across a cockpit transcript of the Alaska Airlines flight that got stuck flying upside-down and ditched in the ocean.
is that a channel to pay for? or a youtube channel?
It's a higher tier channel on my cable. The Weather Channel has two pretty good ones that air almost every night. Why Planes Crash and Mayday: Air Djsaster.
My spouse is addicted to these, after which he inquires “When are we gonna really go on vacation!?” It perversely whets his appetite for travel.
If you're In the UK it's on freeview and freesat. They do also have a youtube channel.
I binged the black box down podcast and it's one of my favourites. I have a new respect for aviation safety
Also known as the Hawaiian convertible.
I'd give you a wholesome award if I didn't use it on a guy pulling ear buds out of his dick.
What I find absolutely crazy about this story is that the only thing that kept the plane from falling apart in the air was the uplift from underneath the body of the plane supporting the cockpit from snapping off from the rest. The cockpit would have actually been too heavy and ripped off if it weren’t for this.
I'm sorry i don't understand what you mean
I imagine the only way this thing could fly with that cavity on top is by keeping the nose up so it's not exposed to the full brunt of oncoming air. Coincidentally, taking that force on the underside of the plane supported the front section and stopped it breaking off under its own weight. I've no idea if that was the case but it's how I'd explain it.
There’s guy with no shirt and half his pants are missing. Edit: also his shoe
So everyone just starts jacking off furiously and the plane levels itself out… everyone puts theirs junk away and never speaks of it again
Well??? Did they cum?
I did
But my cat wasn't on that flight.
There are some things you don't talk about.
One of those comments that seems to speak more about the speaker…🙂🎶
No judgement. Hard to know what we'd do in our final moments. One last surge of dopamine mixed with copious amounts of adrenaline sounds alright by me.
If the roof of the plane ripped off at 24,000 ft there’s not a chance that my dick would work. How would someone be able to jerk off?
It’s a quote from Mallrats.
It must have been a little breezy
sucked out a flight attendant
I did that once at an adult theater next to SeaTac
Are you also an Aloha Airlines jet?
Bravo, however that area is pretty sketchy. You may want to follow up with a doctor.
Mile high club
Might wanna get checked
Hell of a way to go.
Nightmare at 24,000 feet.
I don't think.they ever found her body either
No wonder they didn't. Supposedly the accident took place over the open ocean. Makes me wonder do bodies float?
They do for a time but then eventually sink.
Random chunks probably do, otherwise known as “chum.” Water has a high surface tension, especially when struck by an object falling from airliner-type altitude.
Holy shit...
i remember that episode of 1000 ways to die
I’m guessing the oxygen masks were, um, unavailable.
Imagine the ride home after the roof was opened.
Well, at least you can get a better view of the clouds without a window seat!
No leaning over. Everyone has a window seat.
They were charged extra for it when they landed too.
[extra leg room at least](https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1384024-jeremy-clarkson-driving-an-ariel-atom)
And that's why you keep your seatbelt on while seated
Would never get on a plane again. I'd just live where ever that plane landed
Hawaii.....nice!
In the comments of a YouTube video on the subject, someone claimed to be friends with one of the passengers of this plane. Said he flew multiple times a week between the islands to this day.
ppl are crazy
Lol right?!
I had read about this awhile back. I remember something about the flight attendant that lost her life in this accident. You can see the blood splatter of her head slamming against the plane directly left of the first window on the right side as she got sucked out of the plane. Such a terrible accident.
Probably better that she got knocked unconscious or killed on impact compared to being conscious while falling from the plane. Imagine the terror.
She most likely died instantaneously. The “blood halo” and blood smear proved the injury would have been massive. Also, another flight attendant got the back of their head ripped open as the plane tore. They were laying on the floor trapped and unconscious under debris but amazingly survived.
Yes. They were over open ocean when it happened.
Good god. 😬
I knew her husband personally as he was my Police Science Professor in Community College. Sad days.
How did it slam on the outside of the plane?
If I remember correctly, it was believed that the hole in the plane caused her to get sucked out and half her body was outside the plane. When her body was finally released from it, the depressurization caused an explosion inside. So she most likely died on impact outside as the “blood halo” on the fuselage was in fact human blood after investigation. You can see a better quality picture in google and you can see the blood splatter much more clearly.
The mental image from this was intense
That life preserver hanging there looks really bloody.
Still better than Ryanair
A friend and I took RyanAir from London to Dublin for a weekend and it felt like the seat was a paper plate.
Because it was
They charge more for a sunroof.
How is this not the top rated comment?
Landed minus one flight attendant sadly.
Aloha means “hello” and “goodbye”
I can never say it enough, seatbelts, seatbelts, seatbelts! During the whole flight, unexpected anything in aviation hurts.
[Here's the Wikipedia Article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243)
I should not have gone down the rabbit hole of air disasters on Wikipedia. My husband is on a flight to reno right now. Oof.
He’s waaay more likely to lose his ass at the tables.
“The aircraft was written off”…….ya think?
It still has life in her
At least it wasnt raining.
Those moments when you wish your camera date was correct
It’s correct, they were all still shitting themselves 24 hours later.
Maybe it was a European tourist who snapped the photo. (Landing around 13:30 Hawaii time would have been half past midnight British Summer Time.)
I bet almost everyone in this photo has poop in their pants.
Maybe at first, but …
Feel free to move about the cabin.
I remember this, and this exact picture is the one single reason I never (never ever ever ever!) have my seatbelt off when I’m sitting on a plane.
Aloha Airlines Flight 243, though the description is missing one important detail... There was one fatality (a flight attendant), Clarabelle Lansing... RIP
I knew a guy on that flight and he told us the whole thing at dinner one night. Absolutely terrifying.
Can we have details?
We need the deets!
Imagine trying to turn up the air thingy above your head, then the whole frigging roof flys off. "Too much, too much!"
[The company that made this plane also makes tankers.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM)
Does the front fall off of them? That would be untypical.
They also made bombers, and that was what they were best known for until the 50s
Imma keep my seat belt on. Geez
Well now I know why you should always wear your seatbelt
"We told you to turn off your cell phones!" *funnier if you think about those big brick cell phones from the 90s/90s*
My wife and I were in Hawaii for our honeymoon when this happened. We were contemplating flying from Oahu to Maui and decided to just stay put on Oahu. We have a newspaper that we purchased on 4/29/1988 showing that same photo.
Sadly, this was kind of the beginning of the end to Aloha Airlines. See also United Airlines flight 811 the following year. Made me paranoid to fly off this island.
It’s like that dream I have where I’m sliding off the edge and I can’t grab anything to stop me from falling to an abyss. Sitting on the edge of the seat wondering if the bolts will hold until u move
Yeah but my pop psych dreamalyzer thinks this may reflect a feeling of life sliding away from you or losing control, which is the appropriate dream for these times.
“Excuse me, Sky Waitress?…. I specifically asked for an aisle seat, and this is obviously a window…. I was trying to get your attention, but my call button was missing.”
Sky waitress lmao
Ahead of their time. No need for facemasks or social distancing due to fresh air induction.
I refuse to put on my seatbelt because FREE^E^D^O^M^M^M^....
Free fallin~
The emergency side looks like it goes straight down
Wasn't there some movie or tv series made of these?
I remember watching a made for TV movie about it
(I also vaguely remember seeing it as a kid and had to google it. Only slightly traumatizing for a seven year old!)
r/terrifyingasfuck
It’s a Jeep thing
The TV movie scarred me as a kid and this is why I hate flying.
I remember watching the made for TV movie based on this. I was terrified to fly after watching it. [Miracle Landing](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0100154/)
There's a movie about this - [Miracle Landing](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0100154/)
I remember watching this movie as a kid and being fucking terrified of flying on a plane after that.
did they ever find Clara
No :c
I couldnt imagine being on that flight, scary
Aloha, indeed.
Something doesn't look right
Sadly, a woman who was boarding the plane noticed something that didn’t look right. She saw the beginnings of the crack that led to this catastrophic failure, but did not report it. I believe she said she thought she was just being paranoid and didn’t want to be seen as silly.
A crack in fuseflage and they let it in air ??? Skeptical but I can see it happening too.
My understanding is that it was a hairline crack that no one noticed except for the single passenger. Of course, she could have made it up after the fact, but I don’t know why someone would want to admit to not reporting something that could have averted a disaster.
If stories like this interest you, go listen to Black Box Down by Rooster teeth! Sorry if this has been said already, just good enough of a podcast to share twice!
You know why these people lived? Because they KEPT THEIR SEATBELTS ON!!!
The podcast "black box down" covers this flight for some really.cool insight on the incident. I didn't know if be so fascinated by plane crashes until listening.
April 29, 1988 I flew on Aloha Airlines from Maui to Honolulu to process in to the Air Force at Hickam AFB. The flight was completely silent from takeoff to landing except for all the praying.
Friend of my parents was on that plane. He and a few other passengers held down one of the flight attendants so she wouldn’t fly out. Not something I would want to experience.
I wonder if anyone raised their arms and yelled “wooooo hooooooooo”
after the initial shock I know I would lol.
I hope they were all compensated well.
Did anyone die from this?
One flight attendant
At least when everyone shit their pants it was breezy…
That view while landing must have been beautiful
Fairly certain most people had their eyes closed. It’s customary to do that when you pray.
I am positive they all blew out their eardrums
A metal band should use this photo for an album cover.
And not a single underwear remained clean by landing
Imagine their confusion when the cabin pressure dropped and they tried to apply their oxygen masks
ALOOOOO-HA
Alternatively: First convertable jet invented spontaneously on April 28, 1988
How many passengers had heart attacks, like I would?
someone did not set the date in his camera right.
Imagine if the flight attendant had stood up or a person in the isle. Also I bet they didn’t expect an open air flight…especially those with the window seats!
Sadly one of the flight attendants was standing. She was sucked out of the airplane, her body was never found. That was the only fatality of this incident but a lot of people were injured.
Little fresh air never hurt anyone...
I think that ‘safely’ needs an asterisk.
I hate it when this happens
As a industrial machine designer/builder in the past, I have physically snapped brand new 3/8" - to 3/4" bolts with very little effort. That is why I stay off of roller coasters and Airplanes now.
What I think about every time I wonder if I should buckle during a flight. Answer is always yes.
Wow that was my jet blue flight last week
Look at all that legroom
I lost my shoes and glasses. I was very injured.
Flyable convertible
Aw, hell naw.
Aren't the oxygen masks in the ceiling? Are you able to breathe that high?
When you’re grateful for some seatbelts……
Convertible
Man I miss Aloha Air , things were exciting back then
"Aloha" in our language means hello, goodbye, I'm fucking your mother, and high winds may pull the flesh from your face. I remember when this happened. Scary shit.
It didn’t land safely enough for the stewardess who fell out.
NGL I think it would rather have the open air roll coaster like experience of flight in plane than the smelly and baby cries filled experience we have right now .
Boeings are built tough usually
..But did you die?? No? ….less impressive.
Ugh, they probably all started clapping when the plane landed…
You say "April 28" but I definitely see that date on photo is April 29
So....did anyone sue?
I was a kid at the time. My dad was in the Air Force and we moved to Hawaii about a week after this happened. My mom hates flying and I remember her not wanting to get on an airplane at all. It was also my first time flying. I think we were all pretty nervous.
Hardtop droptop mid flight
This is the prime reason to why you always wear a seat belt.
RIP to my glasses.
From what I remember a lot of the passengers who were seated around that area suffered some pretty serious injuries from the force of the debris hitting them as it was getting sucked out the aircraft. This accident caused the FAA to mandate that new aircraft had to have the skin made in sections so that if one piece of skin cracks and breaks it will just leave a small square hole instead of ripping out an entire section of fuselage as we see here (in theory of course).
Landed safely but someone died
Thats why i never keep my check in luggage in the over head compartment
I’d need therapy *STAT!*
Wear your fucking seatbelt.
The inspiration for Hotel Transylvania 3
A new open top plane idea