A Mid-Air Explosion Leaves a 737 Passenger Cabin Exposed: Air Disasters | Smithsonian

Imagine being on a 737 plane, 24,000 above the Pacific with no walls or roof, around you, just the floor. That’s the terrifying reality that the passengers of Aloha 243 were faced with on April 28, 1988.
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[@mralwaysbored9496]

Something tells me the 737 convertible didn't exit the testing phase.

[@natalialabun4066]

😂😂

[@KingofFray]

It didn't go well

[@bakmanplays]

r/cursedcomments

[@natalialabun4066]

@@bakmanplays oh

[@islanders13fan42]

If you’re cracking a joke about this, you need help. If you were on this flight being 30 plus thousand feet in the air and suddenly see the roof the plane break off, you would’ve been frightened big time.
So why crack a joke about this?

[@rmsteutonic3686]

It’s a good sign when they start interviewing survivors

[@wasimpatel2412]

Bjll

[@JohnnyAngel8]

I remember this on the evening news. The pictures and story were shocking.

[@islanders13fan42]

The horror the passengers and flight attendants endured is just chilling enough. I don’t think I’d be alive if the plane’s roof broke off after being 30 plus thousand feet in the sky. I think I’d be dead from extreme fright

[@OatmealRoblox]

Imagine enjoying your trip to a nice island in Hawaii and then your plane roof is gone 💀

[@Milanaurz]

And all your stuff is gone

[@islanders13fan42]

I can imagine how terrifying that’s gotta be.

[@blowingmind8000]

Kid

[@josh6706]

Sweet, it's a convertible! 😎

[@Benjamin12269]

Not funny

[@arober9758]

Very good job indeed fellows!! Everyone on board survied except one flight attendant.🥇📖🇺🇸

[@abdullahnaeem5349]

Feel bad for that one singular person who died

[@UNIQUEwastaken]

The single flight attendent was actually the chief flight attendent

[@islanders13fan42]

Horribly tragic 😥😥😥😥

[@RealBrik]

Clarabelle Lansing wasnt it?

[@Nick-1992-SRB]

The great old 80s a lot of cool remarkable things happened in that decade.

[@chaoli3316]

Imagine enjoying your trip to a beach and your plane roof is gone

[@islanders13fan42]

Terrifying as fuck

[@shireennazirali392]

No way

[@nightlight9562]

Luckily they were able to land safetly

[@johnbenjiebarnuevo1489]

Everyone on board survied except one flight attendant

[@AlexdaNoodles]

Yeah C.B Lansing r.i.p😭

[@Flowermanic]

The one lying on the ground?

[@hivram]

@@Flowermanic no one was sucked out.

[@noahtek1101]

@@hivram one stewardess was sucked out, and they never found her body.

[@islanders13fan42]

@@noahtek1101 Awful.
Maybe she died from a plunge into the sea. Possibly explains why her body has never been recovered

[@fartemisfartmallow8647]

Why do I watch these? I’m petrified of airplanes, I trembled with my head down the whole flight from NY to TX. What’s wrong with me?

[@alicenelson8615]

I don't know, but the same thing is wrong with me!!

[@laqueenawilliams4762]

737 Boeing just crash in China right now

[@yorgoamin]

same here lol we have issues

[@sunnirobertson4316]

Idk but I’m right there with you.

[@ericwaters2238]

Well if you don't like airplane rides I'm sure you don't like roller coasters at amusement parks too lol

[@_OVO_XO]

When the newspaper hit the guy's face 😅🥴🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@triggeredcat120]

I know this is really crazy experience but the acting is something else😂

[@Legend_Evve]

They made this filming so people can understand what happened, not that the movie filming is the real plane

[@triggeredcat120]

@@Legend_Evve Oh of course. 👍🏻

[@tawfikalhaja6861]

The CGI and acting are remarkable man

[@DogeYT-do4kd]

Love the content

[@nzvlogz]

Imagine watching this all over again

[@fsulca4777]

The acting was hilarious

[@TheKilam888]

Forreaaal man, died laughing from 1:30

[@finally2kill_X_FF]

Smithsonian channel is op .♥️

[@leomationsyt8112]

1:33 that’s the best green screen I’ve ever seen

[@CooganBear]

1:35 🤣

[@RobloxGuyz29]

Lol

[@Dlaze92F]

🤣

[@VockRunderscore]

oof
i cant belive smithsonion channel is still posting :)

[@lunchablesniffer]

Enjoy your flight in the new edition convertible plane!

[@memeinfantery7277]

keep it up

[@PoshLife123]

A friend of mine had a dream about this before it happened.

[@mrk3357]

Dreams are fascinating

[@islanders13fan42]

You serious?

[@mylife1221]

​​@islanders13fan42 I believe it. On the same day Kobe Bryant died (before it happened), I had a dream that a helicopter crashed near my house. It was the first time I'd ever, in my life, had a dream where a helicopter crashed.

[@edwardhale4294]

I had a family friend on this flight.

[@LSBPS7614]

what happened to fuselage broken aloha 243 and 113 passengers and 4 member of dead

[@UNIQUEwastaken]

There not dead only 1 is dead

[@TORchic1]

There was some advanced metal fatigue along the fusalage that went undetected, which formed due to a combination of the high flight cycles of the plane and the humidity of Hawaii. While the plane had tear strips to prevent catastrophic cabin pressure loss, the cracks probably joined up and tore the roof off.
While all the passengers survived, the main Flight Attendant, Clarabelle Lansing, was sadly sucked out of the plane during the depressurization. Her body was never found.

[@diamondbacon9674]

all passengers:AAAAAAHHHHHH!
that passenger:wow I got to fly on a convertible

[@TheSiblings2023]

Wow❤

[@sahilprakash1999]

April 28th 1988 Aloha Airlines Flight 243

[@gringoaviationph]

New model of the 737?

[@rainzandersvideos3552]

1 died

[@triggeredcat120]

This was the 80’s

[@arithion]

Clarkson! Where is my roof?

[@Itstheo2023]

pls do the china eastern airlines flight 5735 next

[@TORchic1]

The crash is still under investigation. I doubt we'd get anything conclusive or an accident report for anywhere between several months to over a year.

[@dotmblb69]

An airplane turned into convertible.

[@user-cm2xj7ew5p]

In midair 😮

[@farisaiman7814]

I saw this from Mayday video... turns out even the narration also are the same

[@RobloxGuyz29]

Yeah I just saw it today

[@MrManiak19]

Hey, planes gotta get haircuts too

[@curefinale4900]

Rest in peace C.B Lansing

[@gaminghub8108]

This episode released in March 2022 looks like something for 2004

[@sunnyfon9065]

This episode came out on September 14, 2005

[@gaminghub8108]

@@sunnyfon9065 oh okay. Well, I haven’t watched it on TV because I don’t have Paramount+, so I don’t really know when it was released. Thanks for the mention though.

[@peterg5383]

oops, you forgot to upload the rest of the video.

[@idk66613]

dont worry they just needed a little fresh air

[@tytan7772]

I respekt them ♥️

[@FilipKlasky]

Cause: Explosive decompression caused by metal fatigue and maintenance error

[@avehaddon8622]

Hope they were ok

[@_casual905]

There is only 1 person that died

[@avehaddon8622]

So sad

[@RorysAdventures2023]

People at the back: 👍
People at the front:💀

[@mtrspotter8234]

Kinda like a sightseeing bus x b737

[@callme_henry]

POV: you’re a Karen and you need some “fresh air”

[@Charll1ce596]

This was inspired from the movie Miracle Landing

[@shireennazirali392]

That can not be true

[@triggeredcat120]

It actually happened. Look it up.

[@TheTechOwl]

In here after hearing Alaska Airlines Boeing plane having depressurization.

[@vinniegravano8136]

That red head is one gorgeous creature. 😍

[@muazhaqqanee4541]

Now that’s what I call a convertible

[@robertchristopherstephens9063]

this plane is in microsoft flight sim

[@markjacobenavia1685]

Pull up pull up

[@rysdananurkhalid1153]

Convertible airplane 😬

[@alawagedagoa]

a very disappointing video by Smithsonoian’s. ☹️☹️☹️
The first thing one would do, when the roof of a plane gone missing, is bend down, and hide the face by taking bracing position. Not hold it out to skin-ripping cold wind…..

[@kubsonqqqq1769]

The cameraman:😐🎥

[@didalfreanmonaecb.2008]

I love you

[@katherinelutero7191]

Concorde rfs

[@ayo_ayo1459]

This video looks like Wonder videos

[@josh6706]

Lmao, Wonder licenses old Smithsonian Channel shows like Air Disasters.

[@uwusup2571]

Soooooo is no one going to mention the terrible acting?

[@BoxInThisLapVR46]

Damn the green screen is awful

[@PhilGerb93]

The acting too

[@BoxInThisLapVR46]

@@PhilGerb93 yh

[@motorsportfan1246]

Made in 2005. This episode aired during the early seasons of Air Crash Investigation.

[@BoxInThisLapVR46]

@@motorsportfan1246 I know

[@tfsvids4117]

Cabriolet 737

[@TyphoonSkip]

Convertible plne

[@newmouse25]

Yea china 737 crash today

[@EBGamez1]

100th comment :)

[@tyson7004]

What a waste of time watching this video, if anyone reads this message before don’t watch it, you don’t see what happened it ends half way through a story

[@user-no6gy9sd3f]

Boeing....

[@TyphoonSkip]

expect that from an old airliner. 1960s 732 is dangerous but still flying today

[@nxville.]

CHINA FLIGHT TOMMOROW

[@NoelHasAName]

Im the 100th veiwer

[@especiallyninety_751]

Who asked?

[@adrian11847]

We didn’t ask

[@NoelHasAName]

@@adrian11847 so?

[@NoelHasAName]

@@adrian11847 u too huh? So?

[@adrian11847]

@@NoelHasAName so what?

[@vladimirputin2685]

SOVIET UNION
🇺🇦🔫

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first

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Second

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