Aloha Airline Flight 243

On April 28, 1988, an Aloha Airline Boeing 737, N73711, was scheduled for a series of interisland flights in Hawaii. The crew flew three uneventful roundtrip flights, one each from Honolulu to Hilo (ITO), Kahului Airport, HI (OGG) on the island of Maui, and Kauai Island Airport (LIH). As the airplane leveled at 24,000 feet, both pilots heard a loud "clap1" or "whooshing" sound followed by a wind noise behind them. The first officer's head was jerked backward, and she stated that debris, including pieces of gray insulation, was floating in the cockpit.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• airplane
• crash
• aloha
• airlines
• flight
• 243
• boeing
• 737
• hawaii

[Conie0r]

this isnt fake mate check it out.... I am a pilot this is a famous accident....

[sirben2]

DUDE? WHY WOULD YOU LAUGH AT THIS???

[coffeecation]

@Andy99737Lol. The more I learn the more I realize how little I know.These shows cover the fascinating parts of investigation, but aircraft incident and crash investigation is mostly long screeds of boring but very important scrutinising and analysis and even longer paperwork, charting and so on with every aircraft being different. They also teach us that it is ok to be wrong. Some of my earlier comments on these shows I cringe a little seeing them again. A lot more study yet.

[Andy99737]

@coffeecation I can't argue with a graduate of aircraft investigation OR your analysis. I stand corrected.

[coffeecation]

@Andy99737 Being a graduate of aircraft investigation I stated "she was sucked into the hole" There would have been an approximate 10 atmosphere pressure difference with her being sucked against the hole (Probably legs out) initially created by the "tear strips" (what I loosely termed sacrificial hole). Cutting a very long analysis short in yes, she did "blow" out. Not the hole but with the most likely with the aircraft wreckage.

[Andy99737]

@kendigjl at that altitude and that speed..... I would think all the air would have been blown out of her lungs, ripped her lung tissue apart, not to mention the pressure difference would have rendered her unconscious immediately. All of that coupled with the trauma of going from zero to 600mph (or is it 600mph to zero?) in an instant would not make for a nice day (or prolly better than plummeting 4 miles to your death)

[Andy99737]

@coffeecation Correction: BLOWN into the hole

[roskildahphreak]

@greenorange75 I'm sorry to hear that and i apologize for whatever I wrote. I was at a drunken binge at the time.

[greenorange75]

@roskildahphreak I HAPPEN TO LET YOU KNOW THAT C.B. LANSING, THE ONLY ONE WHO DIED, WAS MY AUNT, YOU SICK FUCK!

[Kingfordian22]

@mebemike

It was due to multiple short flights (the aircraft was used as a short island hopper flight) and constant compression and further stress on the aircraft that lead to the cracks near the rivet points. It was spotted by a passenger as she boarded the plane, only after the incident did she mention it.

[boarderis4snow]

That was the First Officer. ... I can't get over how cool, calm, and collected she was. Now THAT'S professionalism, folks.