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On February 24, 1989, United Airlines flight 811, a Boeing 747-122, experienced an explosive decompression as it was climbing between 22,000 and 23,000 feet after taking off from Honolulu, Hawaii, en route to Sydney, Australia with 3 flight crew, 15 flight attendants, and 337 passengers aboard.
This video attempts to visualize it and explain the cause.
This ^^^ new video is much shorter than the documentary made year ago, but the documentary is incredible and worth to watch.
Pay attention to the Campbell's and the Lee's family and how much the voice and efforts of two grieving parents were able to accomplish.
Improperly latched cargo doors also led to the crash of a Turkish Airlines DC-10 near Paris, and an incident with an American Airlines DC-10 near Detroit that could have led to a crash but thankfully didn't.
Improperly latched cargo doors also led to the crash of a Turkish Airlines DC-10 near Paris, and an incident with an American Airlines DC-10 near Detroit that could have led to a crash but thankfully didn't.
didnt the floor partially collapse and it slight wingnose down rammed into farmland? I recall reading the NTSB on both of these
Interestingly - I remember seeing this news story as a kid and just recently saw the Air Disaster episode on this.
Sad that the NTSB didn't get it right the first time. And Lee Campbell's parents had to basically do the NTSB's job for them.... Travelled from New Zealand and pretty much drove all over the US to get the right answers.
On February 24, 1989, United Airlines flight 811, a Boeing 747-122, experienced an explosive decompression as it was climbing between 22,000 and 23,000 feet after taking off from Honolulu, Hawaii, en route to Sydney, Australia with 3 flight crew, 15 flight attendants, and 337 passengers aboard.
This video attempts to visualize it and explain the cause.
This ^^^ new video is much shorter than the documentary made year ago, but the documentary is incredible and worth to watch.
Pay attention to the Campbell's and the Lee's family and how much the voice and efforts of two grieving parents were able to accomplish.
I totally remember this being on the news. Didn't a Hawaiian air 737 pull a can opener around this same time ? 1989-ish? Part of the roof peeled back. Wild.
On the afternoon of May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 was taking off from runway 32R when its left engine detached, causing loss of control, and it crashed less than one mile (1.6 km) from the end of the runway. All 258 passengers and 13 crew on board were killed, along with two people on the ground. With 273 fatalities, it is the deadliest aviation accident to have occurred in the United States.
The reason I bring it up: I had tickets and was supposed to take that specific flight. A couple days before, I changed my flight to the following day.
I dodged a bullet. If I had been on the flight and died, just think of all the people on the internet today who are wrong; they'd have no one to correct them.
I'd have to say that that is a testament to the structural integrity of the 747. Just an amazing aircraft.
George Kennedy wasn't wrong when he said "this bird is like a truck." (Even tho, he was talking about Boeing's 707, at the time.) Great movie, btw.
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