Incidents
On April 28, 1988, an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 operating Flight 243 from General Lyman Field (as Hilo International Airport was known then) to Honolulu International Airport carrying 89 passengers and 5 crew members experienced rapid decompression when an 18 feet (5.5 m) section of the fuselage roof and sides were torn from the airplane. One flight attendant was blown out of the airplane and died. Several passengers sustained life-threatening injuries including instances of massive head wounds. The aircraft declared an emergency and landed at Kahului Airport on Maui.
Investigations of the incident concluded that the accident was caused by metal fatigue. The incident caused almost all major United States air carriers to re-examine their oldest airplane models and those with those most "cycles" or flights. Many older aircraft were retired or phased-out after these checks.
On October 7, 2011, a Cessna 310 controlled by a 65 year-old pilot coming from Monterey, California declared an emergency landing at about 12:30 pm. The plane was low on fuel. It made a water landing 13 miles offshore of the Big Island.
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