No one was killed. The last time a door blew off mid-flight on a US flight was on United Airlines Flight 811. Nine passengers were pulled out of the plane when the fuselage ripped apart.

HUNDREDS of passengers boarded the United Airlines Flight 811 over three decades ago - before a deadly explosion ripped them from the aircraft. On 24 February 1989, the flight was cleared for take ...

There are few things less natural for humans than flying. Travelling thousands of feet above the surface of the planet completely dependent on technology that the average person has little hope of ...

A United Airlines flight from Sarasota, Florida, made an emergency landing at the next-closest airport after an “open door” indicator light illuminated Wednesday, less than a week after the ...

Feb. 6: United Airlines plane reports stuck rudder pedals On Feb. 6, a United Airlines flight from Nassau, Bahamas to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey experienced "stuck" rudder ...

It was like an airline passenger's ... a plane's door broke off on a US flight over three decades ago. In the early morning hours of February 24, 1989, Flight 811 was traveling from Honolulu ...

As the engines lost power, they both had to be shut down and Flight 811 had no choice but to start ... This comes after the Aloha Airlines disaster in 1988, where the cabin exploded and sucked ...