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Aloha Airlines 243

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separation redirected itself circumferentially, produced a flap, and resulted in a_ controlled decompression. Similar results were obtained when the guillotine test was oriented circumferentially. ‘4g geing's definition for "economic service life" requires the airplane
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Aloha Airlines 243

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through fuel- leakage, and fuselage minimum gage skin that annunciates a failure by controlled decompression through flapping. Other manufacturers include fuselage skin in their structural inspection requirements. Aloha Airlines had incorporated the SSIP into the maint
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Aloha Airlines 243

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combination of both) existed in the lap joint at S-10L to negate the design-intended controlled decompression of the structure.
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Aloha Airlines 243

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enough undetected (but technically detectable) damage along a rivet line to negate the controlled decompression mechanism. The Safety Board recommends that the classification of fuselage minimum gage skin as damage obvious be discontinued and the affected SSIPs be revised
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Aloha Airlines 243

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design which was classified as "damage obvious" or "malfunction evident" because of the controlled decompression scenario. The aviation industry premise that airplanes can be operated in a safe airworthiness condition indefinitely is sound only if operators have an effecti
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Aloha Airlines 243

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concern.. | It was believed that cracking in the aft pressure bulkhead would lead to a controlled decompression failure mode. This, however, did not appear to happen. Subsequent crack growth and residual strength tests on B-747 and B-767 aft pressure
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