Flight that had departed from Hawaii began to gain altitude with 90 passengers and 5 crew members. After the flight reached a cruising altitude of 24,000 feet, it was preparing to continue its normal flight to Honolulu, but then, disaster happened.
Upon reaching cruising altitude, the flight suffered an explosive decompression that blew off part of its roof and much of the forward side fuselage, right up to the wings, leaving a third of the passengers in the open, exposed to fierce winds and temperatures of twenty degrees (Celsius) below zero.
Clarabelle Lansing, the cabin manager, was ejected from the plane. Her body of hers was never found and she likely died upon impact with the sea. It was a tragic death, in the midst of a chain of miracles. However, the remaining passengers and cabin crew were still buckled up, since the light signal had not been turned off.
It was not the only miracle. The cockpit had tilted slightly downwards that any moment, it could end of the lives of 94 passengers who were still on board the Boeing 737-200.
Despite the noise of the explosion, and without knowing exactly what was happening, Pilots managed to request an emergency landing at a nearby airport. The flight began to descend at high-speed. The aircraft was in a horrible condition that it could break into pieces at any second.
Dozens of terrified passengers watched everything happen around them, not knowing if they would survive or not - until they spotted the airport and prepared to land.
Both the Pilot and co-pilot managed to land the damaged Boeing safely.
