On April 28, 1988, passengers on the Hawaii Hilo-Honolulu domestic airlines flight heard a sound resembling the sound of tearing canvas at the 23-minute flight. Approximately 1/3 of the fuselage of a passenger plane was torn off and blown away by the air current. At that moment, the board was at an altitude of 7.7 kilometers, and 12 minutes of flight was not enough for it to land. What fate befell the passengers?
Surprisingly, on April 28, 1988, the tragic flight of an Aloha Airlines plane had every chance of ending happily. Only one flight attendant died in the incident. She was 58-year-old Clarabelle Lansing. The case when it would be appropriate to “darkly” joke with a hackneyed joke from American cinema that she had only 2 months left before retirement. The woman worked as a flight attendant for 37 years. But on that day, she was simply unlucky. When a part of the roof was ripped off the plane, unfortunately for itself, it ended up right in that very place. The flight attendant was pulled out of the plane by a powerful stream of air and carried away. If she had walked a few more steps, she might have been saved.
As for the passengers, they were much more fortunate. Since at that moment they were all already fastened. Although people got off not only with a serious fright. In fact, their lives hung in the balance, and not just because the plane was literally falling apart in the air. The fact is that at an altitude of 7 kilometers, the level of oxygen supply to the blood is no more than 60%. In other words, there is not much to breathe there. Not every professional climber can climb to such a height without oxygen equipment. As a result, out of 94 passengers on the ill-fated Aloha Airlines board, 65 people received various injuries.
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On the failure of the fuselage, the misadventures of the aircraft that day did not end. Dispatchers sent the car on an emergency basis to the nearest airport. At the same time, the pilots dropped the altitude to 3 km, so that the passengers could breathe at least somehow. It is also worth noting that with each kilometer the air temperature loses 6 degrees. Even in Hawaii, 3 km is never Africa. It is also worth adding a draft from the speed of the board to this. So, before landing, the plane had to circle for some more time. Because his chassis broke. And then there was even more: right before landing, one of the engines failed at the plane ...
As a result, the crew miraculously landed the car. If the Lord God, Yahweh, Allah and Buddha exist, then on that day they were all on the side of the passengers of the Aloha Airlines plane. When an investigation was carried out, it turned out that metal fatigue was the cause of the accident. Moreover, the 20-year-old aircraft was in frankly poor condition from a technical point of view. However, the company constantly saved, cut costs in the pursuit of profit, not embarrassed at the same time risking the lives of its own customers. According to experts, if the plane had been in the air for another 10-20 minutes, it would have completely collapsed. Two large cracks were already "sneaking" along the fuselage.
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