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tore away at around 24,000 feet due to explosive decompression.
This reverses the cause of the accident. The NTSB found the fuselage section separated because of lap-joint failure from disbonding and fatigue damage; the explosive decompression was a result of that structural failure, not its cause.
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The accident itself is real, and the aircraft did lose about 18 feet of upper fuselage at roughly 24,000 feet. But the clause "due to explosive decompression" gets the causality backward.
The National Transportation Safety Board's official investigation says Flight 243 "experienced an explosive decompression and structural failure at 24,000 feet," and then identifies the probable cause as Aloha's failure to detect "significant disbonding and fatigue damage" that led to failure of the lap joint at stringer S-10L and "the separation of the fuselage upper lobe." In other words, the structural failure from fatigue/disbonding caused the decompression event; the fuselage did not tear away because of an explosive decompression.
So the post is directionally wrong on the mechanism: the decompression accompanied and followed the structural breakup, rather than being the underlying cause of the fuselage tearing away.
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- NTSB Investigation: Aloha Airlines, Flight 243, Boeing 737-200, N73711
We determined that the probable cause of this accident was the failure of the Aloha Airlines maintenance program to detect the presence of significant disbonding and fatigue damage which ultimately led to the failure of the lap joint at S-10L and the separation of the fuselage upper lobe.