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The Aloha Airlines 737 in the photo (N73711, Boeing 737-297, c/n 20209/152) would be involved in one of the most significant aviation incidents of the past 30 years.

On April 28, 1988, the aircraft would be flying Aloha Airlines Flight 243, from Hilo to Honolulu with 90 passengers and 5 flight crew aboard, when it would suffer explosive decompression at approximately 24,000-feet, losing 18-feet of its upper fuselage from just forward of the wing to just behind the forward main cabin door. The aircraft would make a successful emergency landing at Kahului Airport (OGG / PHOG) on Maui.

Sadly, Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing, an Aloha flight attendant, would lose her life as she was reportedly blown out of the aircraft as its upper fuselage tore away over the Pacific Ocean. While many of the passengers aboard would suffer injury, Ms. Lansing would represent the sole fatality.

The failure of the aircraft's cabin would be attributed to metal fatigue caused by years of service flying relatively short hops between the Hawaiian islands, with frequent compression and decompression cycles in a salt air coastal environment.

As a result of Aloha Flight 243, more stringent inspection standards were implemented for older airliners and an untold number of lives have been saved.

Here's a photo of the aircraft in the immediate aftermath of the incident:

Hawaiian Air Tours / Hawaiian Air Tour Service (HATS) and their DH-104 Dove (reg. N134G), wearing fleet number "7" on its vertical stabilizer in the photo above, make a cameo appearance in the circa-1960s "America!" television series episode entitled, "A Heaven Called Honolulu," at the 17min 24sec mark.
See:
YouTube - Periscope Film - 'America! A Heaven Called Honolulu' - 32605z

Still flying and in operation for Avior Airlines (as YV1576) in Venezuela, and flying throughout Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean almost 25 years after this photo was taken. Delivered new to Southwest Airlines (SWA) in November 1979 as N61SW (c/n 21970/613). The aircraft would next enter operation briefly with Royal Air as C-FRYL in March 2001, before flying in Canada 3000 Airlines service (same registration) in April 2001. In November 2002, Amtec Corporation would hold the aircraft in storage as N324CA. The aircraft would return to airline service as YV-643C for Avior Airlines in July 2003. Subsequently, the aircraft would be re-registered as YV-234T in July 2006, and most recently as YV1576. Here's the same 737 landing at Queen Beatrix International Airport (AUA / TNCA) in September 2010.