What can you expect from an aircraft pilot who operates on your flight? The answer is simple, to bring you and other passengers, onboard, safely from point A to point B.

The list of unforeseen problems is never complete! So, every aircraft pilot must be focused 100% during the whole flight and to give the right decisions at the right time! There is no place for error.

On April 28. 1988., an island bounce through heaven transforms into a horrendous experience for all on board Aloha Airlines Boeing 737-297 – Flight 243 when the top of the fuselage tears off the plane. The cabin becomes depressurized and there’s no emergency oxygen supply.

To start with, the pilots should quickly achieve a lower altitude so everybody on board can breathe. At that point, they must figure out how to land a plane that is held together by just its floor beams. There was one fatality, a flight attendant, who was ejected from the airplane. Another 65 passengers and crew members survived 13 minutes of terror and 480 KPH (300 MPH) freezing winds as pilots attempt to land a plane on the verge of coming apart were injured.

About Aloha airlines the aircraft

The airplane was the 152nd Boeing 737 built, named Queen Liliuokalani after Lili’uokalani, with registration N73711. It was built in 1969. and delivered to Aloha Airlines as a brand-new aircraft.

While the airplane had only accumulated 35,496 flight hours prior to the accident, those hours were over 89,680 flight cycles (a flight cycle is defined as a takeoff and a landing), owing to its use on short flights.