Word: honolulu
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...HONOLULU--A gaping hole ripped open on the right side of a United Airlines jumbo jet carrying 354 people yesterday, sucking as many as 16 passengers to their death 20,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, authorities said...
United's Flight 811, which originated in San Francisco and Los Angeles, had departed Honolulu International Airport with 336 passengers and 18 crew members at 1:53 a.m. (6:53 a.m. EST) for Auckland, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia. It returned 59 minutes later with a 10-by-40-foot vertical hole in its right side near the front of the craft...
...There is an area where there used to be a cargo door and it's not there any more," said Eugene Glenn, special agent in charge of the Honolulu FBI office. But Glenn said it was not known whether the loss of the cargo door was a cause of the accident or a result...
...spokesperson John Leyden in Washington said the pilot reported losing power in one right-side engine nine minutes after takeoff and, after turning to Honolulu, eight minutes later radioed he had lost power in the other right-side engine...
Last April 28, a flight attendant was killed and 61 persons were injured when a portion of the fuselage on a Boeing 737 peeled off during an Aloha flight fron Hilo to Honolulu...