Aloha's Ghost Airliner

As it left the Boeing factory in 1969, Mel Lawrence took the top picture of the Aloha 737-200 that on April 28, 1988 would experience a sudden cabin decompression after takeoff from the Big Isle enroute to HNL. No passengers lost their lives but a longtime Aloha Airlines flight attendant got sucked out a window to her death-the investigators found the hole she went out which had been damaged by her hitting her head on the way out, hence the "ghost plane" designation. They had to make an emergency landing at Kahului on Mau'i (aka OGG). To make matters even worse, they had to use the standard wind tunnel-land-over-the-sugar-mill-smokestack final landing approach.

A couple of years later, this incident was made into a TV-movie that changed the airline name, although they actually used one of the Aloha planes in the filming. This had Connie Sellecca and Wayne "Trapper John" Rogers as the "Paradise Air" pilots, and Jay Thomas, AKA Bruins hockey player Eddie LaBecque from "Cheers" as the Mau'i tower supervisor who talked them down. Available on DVD, as I recall.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Aloha-Airlines/Boeing-737-297/0122306/L/