Landing Flight 811 | Unlocking Disaster | Mayday: Air Disaster

PART 2 | After Flight 811’s cargo door tears off –taking five rows of seats and nine passengers with it – the pilots battle the crisis. Captain Cronin dives to a lower altitude so that he and the passengers can breathe. The flight is 15 minutes from Honolulu and losing altitude. No one knows if they can make the landing. Meanwhile, flight attendant Laura Bretlinger prepares the passengers for a possible ditching in the Pacific. Tension runs high as the severely damaged 747 makes its final approach to the Honolulu airport. Captain David Cronin and crew manage to land the plane with an enormous gaping hole in its side. The flight crew evacuates over 300 people in seconds.

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From Season 1 Episode 1 “Unlocking Disaster”: Just out of Honolulu the cargo door of United Airlines Flight 811 opens at an altitude of 33,000 feet, ripping a huge hole in the 747 taking out five rows of seats –and nine passengers – with it. MAYDAY investigates how delays in fixing known design faults can have tragic consequences.


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