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Eighteen Feet of Sky: The Flight That Lost Its Roof
Eighteen Feet of Sky: The Flight That Lost Its Roof
Blue sky where an aircraft ceiling should be: at 1:46 PM on April 28, 1988, eighteen feet of fuselage roof peeled away at 24,000 feet over the Pacific, yet the plane kept flying - how did a 19‑year‑old Boeing 737 lose its roof with no weather warning and no alarm?
In this episode, we tell what happened on Flight 243 and follow the sequence of events, the people on board, and the maintenance realities that allowed microscopic cracks to grow for years; could a single missed crack at the gate have been the same crack that opened the sky?
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