Aloha
PRR60 description is mostly correct, what is in error, is that Aloha was notified shortly before the incident that 4 of its planes should have that area inspected and redone, over the next 12 months. Aloha was repeatedly in discussion with Boeing about seeing higher levels of Corrosion than Boeing indicated as normal. That morning the first of the 4, the one that also needed scheduled engine service, was pulled from service. After the accident none of these planes went back into service.
While I worked on the TV movie Miracle Landing. Capitan Bob, co-Pilot Mimi and Aloha Chief Maintenance Engineer were advisor's on the crew., My assignment on this shoot was in sound, so I was always in ear shot from the director and cast. I wish I could remember the Actress who played Mimi, but will never forget how beautiful she was. Mimi on the other hand was just average. In that picture look at the Ambulance attendants, that is the only role Aloha would let them have.
The only exaggeration contained in this TV movie is how the FBI character kept insisting there was a bomb.
Lastly, and I think the FAA was wrong but Aloha was cited for improper maintenance, even though they were following Boeing directions, and the two pilots were cited for not following the emergency instruction of "flaps 15". The movie correctly answered what happened to the planes handling when they tried to go to that setting.
Any day I would fly with Aloha Airlines, Their safety standards make me comfortable, at the end of shooting the whole crew applauded those two pilots.
