Flight of terror: Weak hull hinted

Hi Tom,



There are some hints that the hull was weak.



Clive

Given only this headline, I would interpret it this way:

Part 1: There was a flight where strange things happened; the plane seemed to be about the fall out of the sky. The passengers were terrified.

Part 2: The preliminary findings of the investigators is that the plane's body had structural defects which caused this abnormal behaviour.

Flight of terror: Weak hull hinted

I'm not familiar with the story, but it sounds like some people had a bad flight.

The hull of the airplane is the same as the hull of a ship. I'd say it's equivalent to the fuselage, or the main body and framework of the plane.

Someone has perhaps leaked a story that the hul

“Flight of Terror: Weak Hull Hinted” is the headline of a April 30, 1988 edition of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Below the headline is an image of Aloha Airlines flight 243, piloted by Robert Schornstheimer two days earlier on Thursday, April 28. The image is a close up of an airplane with the upper half pipe of fuselage missing across the length of at least 6 rows of seats, still occupied