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  1. Aloha Airlines Flight 243: 13 Minutes From Decompression to Maui

    Event: 1988Published: 30 Oct 2026

    On 28 April 1988 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 lost about 18 feet of its upper fuselage at 24,000 feet.

    View event: Aloha Airlines Flight 243 (1988)
    Location
    Near Kahului, Maui, Hawaii, United States
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  2. Helios Airways Flight 522: How a 737 Flew On After Crew Hypoxia

    Event: 2005Published: 24 Oct 2026

    Helios Airways Flight 522 took off from Larnaca in August 2005 with its pressurisation selector left in manual after night maintenance, and its pilots mistook the cabin altitude horn for a takeoff…

    View event: Helios Airways Flight 522 (2005)
    Location
    Grammatiko, about 33 km north-west of Athens International Airport, Attica, Greece

  3. Helios Airways 522: The Switch, the Horn and Andreas Prodromou

    Event: 2005Published: 16 May 2026

    Airline captain Petter Hörnfeldt traces Helios Flight 522 from the airline's audit failures and the 737's history of pressurisation faults to the overnight test that left the selector in manual.

    View event: Helios Airways Flight 522 (2005)
    Location
    Grammatiko, about 33 km north-west of Athens International Airport, Attica, Greece
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  4. Aloha Airlines Flight 243: Fatigue Cracks and the NTSB Inquiry

    Event: 1988Published: 7 Jul 2021

    This shorter Mayday cut covers what happened after Aloha Airlines Flight 243 landed on Maui on 28 April 1988 with part of its roof missing.

    View event: Aloha Airlines Flight 243 (1988)
    Location
    Near Kahului, Maui, Hawaii, United States
    Phase of flight
    Cruise