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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...

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 violently rips away from a dc-10 on takeoff. >> the pilots knew they had a serious problem, they knew the engine had failed, they didn't know it had actually come off the airplane. and a night flight over the pacific goes treacherously wrong. >> in one second passengers were ...

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