A flight attendant was sucked out of a plane over Hawaii. Her death exposed fundamental flaws in aviation. The passengers and crew on Aloha Airlines Flight 243 endured a living nightmare when the ...

Over the course of history, airplane crashes have been relatively rare. But some — like Aloha Airlines 243 flight on April 28, 1988 — are so shocking that they deserve revisiting. A 2023 ...

As Aloha Flight 243—a weary, 19-year-old Boeing 737 on a short hop from Hilo, Hawaii, to Honolulu—leveled off at 24,000 feet on April 28, 1988, a large section of its fuselage blew off ...

With Aloha Airlines’ inaugural flight in 1946, flight attendants wore form-fitting mu‘umuæu as they performed hula greeting their guests. Transitioning into the 1950s, ...

A shocking airplane crash from April 28, 1988, went viral across the internet in 2023 and 2024. The Aloha Airlines 243 incident was so remarkable that internet users revisited the moment, decades ...