Cargo Door Bursts Open Mid Flight

Black Box Down

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🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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A cargo door on a Boeing 747 bursts open as the plane is climbing to cruising altitude. United Airlines Flight 811 suffers a rapid decompression after the cargo door separates from the plane at 22,000 feet. What happened to make this door come off the plane and is the flight able to land safely? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BlackBoxDownPod. https://twitter.com/blackboxdownpod https://www.instagram.com/blackboxdownpod/ Sponsored by The Jordan Harbinger Show (jordanharbinger.com/subscribe) and Candid (http://candidco.com/blackboxdown and use code blackboxdown) BUY OUR SHIRT - U.S. STORE: https://store.roosterteeth.com/products/black-box-down-t-shirt U.K. STORE: https://store.roosterteeth.co.uk/products/black-box-down-t-shirt Crash Simulator: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Rooster Teeth production.
0:07.5	February 24, 1989.
0:10.0	United Airlines flight 811, a Boeing 747 with 355 people on board, is taking off from
0:16.5	Honolulu, Hawaii at 152 am, bound for Auckland, New Zealand.
0:21.0	17 minutes after takeoff while climbing through 23,000 feet and keeping an eye on some nearby storms,
0:26.4	the crew hears a loud thump that shakes the aircraft.
0:29.5	Warning lights alert the crew that something is very wrong with the plane, and they fear a bomb may have gone off on board.
0:34.5	100 miles from land, they must quickly descend and return to the island of Oahu.
0:39.0	The flight engineer leaves the cockpit to investigate and turns pale when he realizes part of the plane fuselage is missing.
0:45.2	He can see straight into the night sky above the Pacific Ocean.
0:48.4	What happened to the United Flight 811? Are they able to safely return the land? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
0:54.4	Hello, everyone. Welcome to Black Box Down. Your favorite aviation disaster podcast. I hope it's Gus and Chris. Hello, Chris. Hello.
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1:10.4	I'm going to post images of what this plane looks like because it's it's kind of unbelievable.
1:14.4	Yeah, it sounds terrifying, but also like the way you describe it.
1:19.4	It's like a sky view for a plane that you don't want.
1:23.4	I'm sure it was beautiful and you could see tons of stars, but really not the view you want to have when you're inside a plane.
1:29.4	You want to see straight out into the sky. No.
1:32.4	Yeah, it's a wild one. I feel like I want to say this right up to bat. It's purely coincidental that this also happened in Hawaii.
1:38.4	You know, we did that other airline episode a few episodes ago where the top of a plane got ripped off.
1:44.4	This one's the side of a plane. It's just coincident that it also happens to be in Hawaii.
1:48.4	Yeah. So United Airlines flight 811 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Los Angeles to Sydney was stops in Honolulu and Auckland on February 24th, 1989.
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