On April 28, 1988, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 suffered explosive decompression at 24,000 feet when a section of the fuselage tore away. The Boeing 737 had logged over 80,000 short-haul cycles, far ...

Commercial aviation is often considered one of the safest forms of travel, but on April 28, 1988, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 proved how quickly everything can change. What began as a routine 35-minute ...

Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was rapidly losing altitude after its roof tore off, injuring more than half of the passengers and causing one fatality. How the pilots managed to land without crashing is ...