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So the accumulative effect of this cycling of the fuselage is greater in a short period of time than on a long-haul flight where you have one pressurization cycle in an eight-hour period. that was what was not understood until this particular accident. >> aloha 243 was a case where the industry began to learn the corrosive nature and how carefully it had to be monitored in a marine environment. the airline had spent a decade in and out of the hawaiian islands. the corrosion had expanded and with it, cracks. the cracks began to propagate and move, and they finally failed. the results were absol...

Where you have one pressurization cycle in an eight-hour period. that was what was not understood until this particular accident. >> aloha 243 was a case where the industry began to learn the corrosive nature and how carefully it had to be monitored in a marine environment. the airline had spent a decade in and out of the hawaiian islands. the corrosion had expanded and with it, cracks. the cracks began to propagate and move, and they finally failed. the results were absolutely catastrophic. when we come back, the deadliest plane crash in the history of u.s. aviation as a five ton engine vio...

Or maintenance related? >> it pain meese to say this but i think we are finding more and more where it is repair related. >> there were at least two suicides in the wake of the incident. japan airlines employee who was working with victims' families and an inspection engineer who issued a certificate of air worthyness for the doomed plane a of the 1978 tail strike. to this day, jal 123 remains the deadliest single aircraft accident in the history of aviation. we have seen the disastrous results of airplanes not properly repaired, maintained or inspected. japan airline flight 123, american flig...

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