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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.
The aircraft was withdrawn from service and later converted into a freighter aircraft in October 2010. [2] DHL Aero Expreso took possesion in November 2010. The captain, age 58, had logged 16,381 flight hours, including 6,233 hours on the Boeing 757. The first officer, age 43, had 10,545 flight hours including 2,337 on the Boeing 757. [3]
Forward fuselage of the 737 found on the seabed a week after the accident. The aircraft involved was a 45-year-old first-generation Boeing 737-200. [citation needed] From 1968 to 1988, Boeing built 1,114 of the 737-200 type, [25] but by 2021, fewer than 60 were still flying worldwide. [13]
Catastrophic and contained cargo fire in rear cargo deck lead to the separation of tail section, an in-flight break up and a high-speed dive into ocean 1988-04-28 Aloha Airlines Flight 243: Hawaii, United States Boeing 737: Improper adhesive bonding of fuselage lap joints 1 Corrosion and fatigue: 18 ft of roof separated from fuselage 1988-12-21
The Federal Aviation Administration commissioned a report into Boeing following the fatal 2018 and 2019 crashes — and the results published in February weren't good news for the company.
The hole in the fuselage – roughly in an inverted T-shape – was up to 2.01 metres (6 ft 7 in) wide and approximately 1.52 metres (5 ft 0 in) high, located on the right side of the fuselage, below cabin floor level and immediately forward of the wing. The wing-fuselage fairing was missing, revealing some palletised cargo in the hold.
With Alaska Airlines temporarily grounding all of its Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft late Friday after a terrifying incident earlier in the day, memories of aviation disasters involving the 737 Max in ...
The nation’s top accident investigator says warning lights were triggered on three flights, including each of the two days before the brand-new Boeing 737 Max 9 suffered a terrifying fuselage ...