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 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 at Kahului Airport on April 28, 1988, after its fuselage was ripped apart during the flight.
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was a scheduled Aloha Airlines Boeing 737-200 flight between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii.
Flight attendant Jane Sato-Tomita, who was at the front of the plane, was seriously injured by flying debris, and was thrown to the floor.
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 Aloha Airline Flight 243 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 from Hilo to Honolulu landed at Kahului Airport on April 28 1988 after its fuselage was torn away during flight Aloha Airlines.
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 from Hilo to Honolulu landed at Kahului Airport in 1988 after its fuselage was torn away during the flight.
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 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 - Aircraft Accident - Maui Hawaii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On April 28, 1988, an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737, N73711, based at the Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii, was scheduled for a series of Interisland flights to be conducted under Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 121.
After familiarizing himself with the flight operations paperwork, he proceeded to the Aloha Airlines parking apron and performed the preflight inspection required by company procedures before the first flight of the day.
As with the previous flights of the day, no system, powerplant, or structural abnormalities were noted during these operations, and the flights were uneventful.
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 Aloha Airlines - Wikicompany
Aloha Airlines Boeing 737-297, registration N73711, operating flight AQ243 from Hilo to Honolulu at Kahului Airport on April 28, 1988 after its fuselage was torn away during flight.
On April 28, 1988, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 Boeing 737 (N73711) interisland flight from Hilo Airport to Honolulu International Airport carrying 89 passengers and 6 crew members experienced rapid decompression when an 18 feet section of the fuselage roof and sides were torn from the airplane.
One flight attendant was forced out of the airplane due to the pressure difference and died as a result.
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 Aloha Flight 243 - Aloha Flight 243 - Aloha Flight 243 - Aloha Flight 243   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The local controller instructed flight 243 to change to the Maui Sector transponder code to identify the flight and indicate to surrounding air traffic control (ATC) facilities that the flight was being handled by the Maui ATC facility.
The flight was operating beyond the local controller's area of radar authority of about 13 nmi.
Flight 243 continued to transmit on the local controller frequency.
www.aloha.net /~icarus/243pg3.htm   (628 words)

  
 NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
All aircraft flight crew are now required to double-verify all take-off procedures, once while holding on the taxiway, and a second time just before take-off.
Pan Am Flight 103 exposed the vulnerability of international flights to fatal acts of terrorism internationally and in the U.S. The White House called for more intensive checks on baggage being loaded onto airplanes and a more stringent security check of persons boarding all domestic and international flights.
Commuter airlines did not have access to their pilots' previous employee records because there was no federal statute mandating that these records follow pilots from employer to employer.
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 AFA Aloha Airlines: Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Aloha Airlines spokesman Stu Glauberman said the carrier's interisland and mainland flights were operating as scheduled yesterday.
At the interisland terminal, Hawaiian and Aloha airlines were back to normal after experiencing long delays on Sunday, when lines of passengers snaked their way out of the terminal and onto...
Aloha Airlines also flies out of Oakland and its flights were scheduled to go on as planned Monday.
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 The Honolulu Advertiser | Local News
As an Aloha Airlines jet began landing on Maui, passenger Matt Austin noticed the luggage racks rattling and swaying when the thrust reversers came on.
Aloha Airlines no longer flies the 737-200 "basic" planes that were in use at the time of the accident.
Aloha Flight 243 was bound from Hilo to Honolulu when its roof tore off.
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 Aloha Airline 243 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Aloha Airlines flight 243, a Boeing 737-200 interisland flight from Hilo.
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was en route to Honolulu on April 28, 1988, at 24000 feet when a large section of the fuselage was ripped from the Boeing 737.
The Aloha Airlines Flight 243 accident in Maui was a seminal commercial aviation event in the airframe (structures) field for several reasons.
flightdir.com.cob-web.org:8888 /aloha_airline_243.html   (951 words)

  
 PilotsCom; CVR
LAPA Flight 3142, a Boeing 737-200, crashed on takeoff from Buenos Aires, Argentina after the crew forgot to set their flaps.
Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashed on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in 1987.
Aloha Airlines flight 243, a Boeing 737-200, suffered an explosive decompression while cruising at 19,000 feet over the Hawaiian Islands.
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 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 - Aircraft Accident - Maui Hawaii (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The planned routing for Aloha flight 243 was from Hilo to Honolulu at flight level 240.
According to passenger observations, the flight attendant was immediately swept out of the cabin through a hole in the left side of the fuselage.
Flight 243 landed on runway 02 at Maui's Kahului Airport at 1358:45.
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 Financial Library - United Airlines Flight 811   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The explosion, caused by a malfunctioning cargo door that opened during flight, ripped out several rows of seats with 9 passengers, who were killed when ejected from the aircraft (or shortly thereafter).
Lee Cambell was one of the casualties on flight 811.
In 1989, the flight crew (none of whom were ejected during the explosion) received the [2] Secretary's Award for Heroism for their actions.
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 Aloha Airlines - keyword information
Aloha Airlines (IATA: AQ, ICAO: AAH, and Callsign: Aloha) is an airline...
Welcome to Aloha VA. We are thrilled to bring flight simulator enthusiasts one of the coolest airlines in the world.
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 AFA-CWA | UAL Council 12 | Los Angeles | AFALAX.ORG
In the aftermath of the attacks, Flight Attendants were given heightened responsibilities for the security and safety of their planes.
Since there are fewer airline employees, there are fewer flights, and passengers are flying on more crowded planes, making the job of flight attendants even tougher.
Today, being a flight attendant is less about service and serving drinks than enforcing security measures and getting people off a plane as fast as possible if crisis strikes.
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 The Honolulu Advertiser | Opinion
The Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was a tragedy of epic proportions.
The driving force of my analysis (of the in-flight accident) was foremost to identify a subtle design flaw in the Boeing design with the intent of having it corrected.
Aloha Airlines just unfortunately got caught because of the short flight times and the high flight cycles unique to servicing the Hawaiian Islands.
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 Aloha airlines flight 243 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 departed Hilo en route to Honolulu at 1.25...
Aloha Flight 243 was bound from Hilo to Honolulu when its roof...
Aloha Flight 243 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 from Hilo to Honolulu landed...
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 SwRI Fall 2001 Technology Today Article (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The nation's commercial aircraft fleet also is aging as airlines curb capital equipment costs by extending the service lives of their aircraft.
The in-air skin failure 13 years ago of an Aloha Airlines jet was the result of skin failure produced by cracks that formed from many small rivet holes.
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was en route to Honolulu on April 28, 1988, at 24,000 feet when a large section of the fuselage was ripped from the Boeing 737 airliner.
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 COCKPIT : Civil & Commercial Aviation
The would-be hijacker, a FedEx pilot who was to be terminated from the airline, was sentenced to life in prison in wake of the incident.
The Boeing 767's Flight Data Recorder indicates that the aircraft entered a high-rate descent, recovered, and then broke apart at 13,000 feet.
American Airlines flight 191 crashed shortly after takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in May, 1979, after the aircraft's no.1 engine separated during its takeoff roll.
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 Aloha Airlines flight 243 :: Air Travel History :: BootsnAll Theme Guides
In April, 1988, Aloha Airlines flight 243, en route between Hilo and Honolulu, was cruising at 24,000 feet when a large portion of the upper fuselage suddenly ripped away.
Standing in the aisle near row five at the moment of decompression, she was instantly swept overboard.
Patrick Smith, 38, is an erstwhile airline pilot, retired punk rocker and air travel columnist.
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 airodyssey.net - "Miracle Landing"
An Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 lost an 18 ft. section of its fuselage at 24,000 feet, due to metal fatigue.
In the meantime, Flight attendant Michelle Honda (Ana-Alicia) is painting a portrait of her daughter, in the traditional hawaiian costume.
It is a Boeing 737-200, registry N70723, flown by Paradise Airlines, flight 243 from Hilo (ITO) to Honolulu (HNL).
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 CIRP: First Aid for the Psyche
A senior flight attendant was swept to her death, and all 89 passengers were injured.
The near loss of Aloha 243, plus subsequent discoveries and revelations about the geriatric problems of aging airliners, heightened concerns about these issues internationally and led the FAA and the airline industry to develop a comprehensive program to deal with aging aircraft structures.
Both aircraft were torn apart by pressures and stresses they were not built to withstand—in Aloha 243, normal cabin pressurization pushing against a spreading series of small fuselage cracks; in TWA 800, an explosion in the center wing fuel tank.
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 Engineering failures
American Airlines Flight 96 was a regular DC-10 commuter flight operated by American Airlines, with a scheduled route from Detroit, Michigan to Buffalo, New York.
The Banqiao Reservoir Dam () and Shimantan Reservoir Dam () are among 62 dams in Zhumadian Prefecture of China's Henan Province that failed catastrophically in 1975 during Typhoon Nina.
In addition to determining the cause of the accident, the panel also recommended changes that should be made to increase the safety of future shuttle flights.
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 Aloha Airlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aloha also markets some inter-island routes served by partner Island Air, and its frequent flyer program, AlohaPass, is a partner of United Airlines' Mileage Plus program.
The airline was founded as charter carrier Trans Pacific Airlines by publisher Ruddy Tongg as a competitor to Hawaiian Airlines, commencing operations on Aloha Friday, July 26, 1946.
One flight attendant (Clarabelle Lansing) was forced out of the airplane from the pressure difference and is presumed dead.
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 Aloha Airlines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
After getting clearance from all pre-flight inspections, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 departed from Hilo, Hawaii en route to Honolulu on April 28, 1988.
A senior flight attendant was swept away from the aircraft to her death, and 64 passengers were injured from jagged bits of metal that had broken loose and speared back among them.
The pilot managed to land the aircraft safely, and afterwards engineers determined the cause of failure to be a small fracture that had been overlooked in the pre-flight inspections.
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 miraclelanding
On April 28th, 1988 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 departed Hilo Airport for Honolulu.
A few minutes into the flight, at 24,000 feet, the top forward section was ripped off and the head Flight Attendent, Clarabell Lansing, was pulled out of the plane.
The cause of the accident was debated, but the obvious fact of wear and tear on older planes was fairly obvious.
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