Plane Missing Roof

At least 65 passengers were believed to have boarded the aircraft in los angeles on thursday night but a.

Plane missing roof. To adjust the roof ceiling plane. This month marks 30 years since schornstheimer and tompkins. 26 mi south southeast of kahului on the island of maui a small section on the left side of the roof ruptured with a whooshing sound. A plane lost its roof at 24 000 feet but managed to land a national transportation and safety board investigation later revealed that the incident may have been caused by the plane s old age and poor maintenance.

The flight was just another routine interisland flight. On april 28 1988 aloha airlines flight 243 was a scheduled aloha airlines flight between hilo and honolulu in hawaii. Cruising at 24 000 feet an 18 foot section of the plane s roof suddenly ripped off causing an explosive decompression creating a gaping hole in the fuselage and sucking a flight attendant out of the plane. After a routine takeoff and ascent the aircraft had reached its normal flight altitude of 24 000 feet 7 300 m when at around 13 48 about 23 nautical miles 43 km.

This list of missing aircraft includes all of the aircraft that have disappeared in flight for reasons that have never been definitely determined. It also found that aloha airline s short flights meant that its planes should have received maintenance twice as often as they had. Minneapolis wcco ap there are new developments out of the south metro where crews have been searching since last night for a missing plane. A three day coast guard search was unable to locate lansing or the roof of the aircraft.

Abels said eight to 11 passengers were believed missing from the plane. However there still remains a grey area on how. A plane lost its roof at 24 000 feet but managed to land youtube. According to annex 13 of the international civil aviation organization an aircraft is considered to be missing when the official search has been terminated and the wreckage has not been located.