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Aloha Airlines is unique in that its jet fleet consists entirely of two types of Boeing 737 aircraft, a standard version (the 737-200) for the interisland runs and a long-range version (the 737-700) with wider wings and bigger fuel capacity for the mainland trips.
Its safety record rates an “A", the highest grade possible, according to Air Rankings Online (see rankings at Airline Rankings). Rankings are cumulatives, based on the number of fatal accidents per million flights that the carrier has flown since 1970.
On April 28, 1988, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 Boeing 737 interisland flight from Hilo Airport to Honolulu International Airport carrying 89 passengers and 6 crew members experienced rapid decompression when an 18 feet section of the fuselage roof and sides were torn from the airplane. One flight attendant was sucked out of the airplane and died. Several passengers sustained life-threatening injuries including instances of massive head wounds. The aircraft declared an emergency and landed at Kahului Airport with slight difficulty. Noise created by the rush of air rendered vocal communication useless and had to use hand signals during landing.
Investigations of the disaster, headquartered at Honolulu International Airport, concluded that the accident was caused by metal fatigue. The disaster caused almost all major United States air carriers to retire their oldest airplane models.
The event was dramatised as a television movie titled Miracle Landing. It starred Connie SelleccaHollywood Squares''. Connie Sellecca (born Concetta Sellecchia on May 25, 1955 in The Bronx, New York City) is an Italian American actress. Sellecca first made a name for herself as a fashion model, but she is most known for her role as Christine Francis and Wayne RogersWayne Rogers is an American film and television actor who is best known for playing the role of Trapper John McIntyre in the long-running U. television series, M A S H''. He is a graduate of the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. Since retiring from a.
Aloha Airlines uses the IATA designator codeIATA Airline Designators are two-letter codes assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to the world's airlines. These codes form the first two letters of a flight code. Since 1987 the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) AQ.
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