United Airlines Flight 811, a Boeing 747‑122, suffered a catastrophic cargo‑door failure shortly after take‑off from Honolulu International Airport on a night in February 1989. The sudden decompression caused the forward right side of the fuselage to tear away, and several passengers, including a group of Norwegian nationals, fell into the Pacific Ocean. The incident, reported by Vietnam.vn, remains one of the rare cases in which passengers were ejected from an aircraft into the sea.
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