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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.
The aircraft involved, manufactured in 1973, was a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 registered as N707PV with serial number 400. It was first delivered to Sun Valley Key Airlines on December 18, 1973. It was sold to Aloha IslandAir on March 10, 1988, and started service during November of the same year.
At the time of the accident, according to the NTSB report, the plane “had accumulated 35,495 flight hours and 89,680 flight cycles (landings), the second highest number of cycles in the ...
The two people on board were killed when the plane crashed into a building near Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu Tuesday afternoon, Hawaii News Now reported.
The deliberate crashes of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001 constitute, by a large margin, the deadliest aircraft disaster by number of victims on the ground, with a total of approximately 2,600 ground fatalities attributed to the two crashes and ...
The two people onboard the Cessna 208 Caravan operated by Kamaka Air were both killed at the scene of the crash in Honolulu. ... a plane crashes into a building and bursts into flames killing two ...
CANT Z.506 crash off Benghazi: 9 [8] 1939-11-17 C Spanish Air Force: Cap Juby Ju 52 ditching 10 [9] 1940-04-09 Ogwyn George 21 Male C RAF Sylling crash 9 [10] [11] 1941-10-30 Clarence Bates 41 Male C: Northwest Airlines: Northwest Airlines Flight 5: 14 Captain of Flight 5. Died in another plane crash one year later. [12] 1942-08-25 Sgt Andrew ...
A Colorado couple celebrating their first wedding anniversary were among those killed in the skydiving plane crash in Hawaii. The Honolulu Medical Examiner's office said Monday Ashley and Bryan ...