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Jets
Two Lost Consciousness
Boeing 737-300. Substantial damage. Two minor injuries.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the improper installation of a fuselage crown skin panel led to fatigue cracking at a lap joint and to the eventual separation of the panel as the 737 was climbing through 34,000 ft during a scheduled flight from Phoenix to Sacramento, California, the afternoon of April 1, 2011.
The tear in the fuselage skin resulted in a rupture of the pressure vessel that caused the cabin to depressurize rapidly and two of the 125 people aboard the airplane to sustain minor injuries after losing consciousness.
The flight cre…
