Season Premiere

Mayday: Season 3

3x01 Hanging by a Thread
TV-14

  • 2005-09-15T00:00:00Z on National Geographic
  • 45m
  • Andy Webb
  • Andy Webb
  • Canada
  • English, Spanish; Castilian, Japanese, French, German, Russian
  • Documentary, Drama, Crime
On 28 April 1988, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 is en route from Hilo to Honolulu in Hawaii, when the upper half of the front fuselage is torn off, blowing out a flight attendant. The aircraft subsequently lands safely at Kahului, Maui. The fuselage failed from corrosion damage and metal fatigue.
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