Passengers reported hearing an explosive noise and feeling air being.
Southwest airlines roof ripped off.
Two of the 123 people on board suffered minor injuries.
The faa called monday for inspections of older boeing 737s after an incident on friday in which the roof tore off southwest airlines flight 812.
Southwest airlines flight 812 was a boeing 737 300 passenger jet that on april 1 2011 suffered rapid depressurization while cruising at 34 000 ft 10 000 m near yuma arizona leading to an emergency landing at yuma international airport.
A flight attendant was sucked out of the plane and plunged to her.
Aah243 was a scheduled aloha airlines flight between hilo and honolulu in hawaii.
Southwest airlines is grounding 79 of its boeing 737 planes after the ceiling of a flight out of phoenix tore open in mid air friday which prompted a sudden loss of cabin pressure a rapid.
An entire section of the roof ripped off leaving passengers exposed as though sitting on the top deck of a roofless tour bus.
Aloha airlines flight 243 iata.
One flight attendant was sucked out to her death and 65 passengers.
In april 1988 when the cabin roof ripped off an aloha airlines 737 and swept a flight attendant to her death it sent a startling signal to the airline industry about the dangers of metal fatigue.