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Aloha Airlines Flight 243 (IATA: AQ243, ICAO: AAH243) was a scheduled Aloha Airlines flight between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii. On April 28, 1988, a Boeing 737-297 serving the flight suffered extensive damage after an explosive decompression in flight, caused by part of the fuselage breaking due to poor maintenance and metal fatigue.
Fossett made the first solo nonstop unrefueled fixed-wing aircraft flight around the world between February 28 and March 3, 2005. He took off from Salina, Kansas , where he was assisted by faculty members and students from Kansas State University , and flew eastbound with the prevailing winds, returning to Salina after 67 hours, 1 minute, 10 ...
At the time of the explosion, the aircraft was approximately 225 kilometers (140 mi; 121 nmi) northwest of Hawaii, cruising at 36,000 feet (11,000 m) with 270 passengers and 15 crew on board. [3] The bomb, which had been placed under a seat cushion, killed 16 year-old Toru Ozawa, a Japanese national.
United Airlines Flight 811 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, with intermediate stops at Honolulu and Auckland.On February 24, 1989, the Boeing 747-122 serving the flight experienced a cargo-door failure in flight shortly after leaving Honolulu.
Authorities announced Monday that a fourth victim, identified as a 3-year-old boy, died at around 1:30 a.m. at a hospital, the Honolulu Civil Beat and Hawaii News Now reported.
A New Year’s Eve fireworks explosion in a Honolulu-area neighborhood killed two people died and injured 20 others, authorities say. Fireworks explosion kills 3 people, injures 20 in Hawaii Skip ...
Pan Am Flight 843 was a scheduled domestic commercial flight from San Francisco, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii.On Monday, June 28, 1965, Clipper Friendship, [2] the Boeing 707-321B operating this route, experienced an uncontained engine failure shortly after take-off, but was successfully able to make an emergency landing at nearby Travis Air Force Base. [3]
A New Year’s Eve fireworks explosion in Honolulu killed at least three people and critically injured more than 20 others, authorities say. Honolulu emergency services department director Jim ...