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Old 29th Oct 2010, 03:12
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Aloha Air 243, actually.

The "fluid hammer" effect was suggested as a factor in that accident by an engineer, but not accepted by the NTSB in its final report - which found that widespread fatigue due to a very high number of cycles sufficiently accounted for 1/3 of the cabin skin "unzipping" following the initial failure. http://www.jethag.com/wp-content/upl...009/10/243.jpg

But an FA was, indeed, sucked out during the decompression, the sole fatality.

The incident MungoP refers to was United Flight 811: http://www.warman.demon.co.uk/anna/united.jpg - due to an age (but not fatigue) induced cargo-door locking failure.

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