The aircraft's pilot was unaware of any shooting, and the airline stated that they only found out ab

On April 28, 1988, some twenty minutes after take off from Hilo, Hawaii, this Boeing ocean village cruises 737-297 (Flight 243) belonging ocean village cruises to Aloha Airlines was hit by a sudden decompression and part of its roof was ripped ocean village cruises off when flying at an altitude of 24,000 feet (7,300 m).
The age of the aircraft, corroded fuselage and stressed rivets led to the incident, in which 65 people were injured and in which one person ocean village cruises died - Chief Flight Attendant Clarabelle 'CB' Lansing - who was sucked through a hole in the side of the aircraft. The plane performed an emergency ocean village cruises landing at Maui.
The frequency of the aircraft's flights became a key issue. It was 19 years old at the time of the accident and had sustained a remarkable number of take-off landing cycles - 89,090 - which was the second highest ocean village cruises number of cycles for a plane in the world at that time, and well beyond the 75,000 trips it was designed to sustain.
According to the official NTSB report of the investigation, Gayle Yamamoto, a passenger, noticed a crack in the fuselage upon boarding the aircraft prior to the ill-fated flight but did not notify ocean village cruises anyone.The crack was located behind the front left-hand passenger door, and was probably due to metal fatigue related to the 89,090 ocean village cruises compression and decompression cycles experienced in the short-hop flights by Aloha. (Photograph: Robert Nichols/Black Star)
The incident involving Aloha Airlines Flight 243 led to the introduction of the Aviation Safety Research Act of 1988 in the USA and was a significant event in the history of aviation, with far-reaching effects on safety policies and procedures. This photograph shows the aircraft (registration N73711) ten years before the incident, and in the airline's earlier livery.
Chief Flight Attendant Clarabelle 'CB' Lansing, pictured in 1962. The Lansing Memorial Garden was inaugurated at Honolulu International Airport's Interisland Terminal in 1996, near the gates formerly used by Aloha Airlines. The airline ceased passenger operations in 2008.
An Airbus A321-200 belonging to Asiana Airlines, with 119 people on board, registration HL7763, was flying from Chengdu (China) to South Korea on June 17th 2011, when it was shot at by South Korean border guards as it approached Seoul's 'Incheon' airport.
Two South Korean soldiers on guard on the disputed ocean village cruises (with North Korea) island of Gyodong thought the aircraft was a military warplane intruding into South Korean airspace from North Korea and opened fire with their K-2 rifles. The aircraft wasn't hit and continued for a safe landing ocean village cruises at the airport.
South Korean officials said the two soldiers on guard fired a total of 99 rounds at the aircraft and the shooting lasted for about 10 minutes, but the aircraft was well out of range of their rifles. They claim the soldiers didn't actually see the aircraft, because of fog, but that they thought it "sounded like a North Korean military aircraft".
Orders had been issued by the South Korean ocean village cruises Defence Ministry to immediately open fire upon any provocative acts from the North Koreans, ocean village cruises without ocean village cruises waiting for instruction from superiors, following an incident the previous ocean village cruises year when North Korean military took another disputed island (Yeonpyeong) under fire, killing 4 inhabitants.
The aircraft's pilot was unaware of any shooting, ocean village cruises and the airline stated that they only found out about the incident ocean village cruises when the military enquired whether the aircraft ocean village cruises had suffered any damage. Luckily, Defence officials assured the world that soldiers at frontline guard posts would immediately be trained to distinguish between civilian and military aircraft.
Not only were the soldiers useless at aircraft identification, they didn't know much about their weapons either. The K-2 rifles they were using to shoot at the plane have an effective range of 500 to 600 metres (1,970 feet). The plane, however, was about 6 to 8 kilometres (5 miles) away, and 5,000 feet in the air.
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