April 28, 1988: The roof of an Aloha Airlines jet ripped off in mid-air at 24,000 feet, but the plane still managed to land safely. One Stewardess was sucked out of the plane. Her body was never found.
On top of ... you know, everything else ... one thing I can't imagine about being in that situation is how deafeningly loud it must have been. I mean you're in a 500mph air stream, and you've got an old-school 737 engine screaming just off your shoulder. It must have been so insane.
WhatImKnownAs on March 16th, 2021 at 01:37 UTC »
Despite not crashing, it's been covered in the celebrated Plane Crash Series on this subreddit: The (almost) crash of Aloha Airlines flight 243: Analysis, very informative.
teardrop82 on March 16th, 2021 at 01:47 UTC »
I wonder if any of those people have been on a plane since then.
GiganticEyeball on March 16th, 2021 at 01:54 UTC »
On top of ... you know, everything else ... one thing I can't imagine about being in that situation is how deafeningly loud it must have been. I mean you're in a 500mph air stream, and you've got an old-school 737 engine screaming just off your shoulder. It must have been so insane.