On April 28, 1988, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 suffered explosive decompression at 24,000 feet when a section of the fuselage ...

Bob Nichols, a passenger on Aloha Airlines Flight 243, slid down the chute of the plane, then turned around and captured the moment on April 28, 1988, when the aircraft made an emergency landing at ...

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The plane was flying over paradise, carrying 95 people on a short jaunt from Hilo to Honolulu in Hawaii, when all hell broke loose in an instant on the afternoon of 28 April 1988. There was a “whoosh” ...

NEARLY one hundred people climbed on board an Aloha Airlines jet for what they thought was just another routine inter-island flight. But the 55-minute journey would end up transforming the aviation ...

There were haunting screams, then silence. April 28, 1988, will be remembered by many as the day one of the most shocking moments in aviation history occurred. It was the fateful day when Aloha ...

April 28, 1988, will be remembered by many as the day one of the most shocking moments in aviation history occurred. It was the fateful day when Aloha Airlines Flight 243 lost the upper half of its ...