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April 21, 2020

An Aloha Airlines 737-200 is doing an island hop from the many islands that make up Hawaii when a structure failure causes an explosive decompression. Find out how maintenance practices and ignorance caused this plane to almost crash on its way to the Maui airport.

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In Mechanical Failures, Company Failures Tags 737-200, Aloha Airlines, Structural Failure, Maui, Hawaii, Maintenance Failure
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