United Airlines Flight 811 Ejects Nine People After Explosive Decompression | Mayday | On The Move

My ex husband was an aircraft engineer for Boeing and airbus. He is exactly the kind of person you want checking your plane. Absolutely meticulous and over analyses everything. His constant complaint was not about other engineers, but about the managers. His job was to check any tiny fault, like a scratch or a minutely misaligned rivet and to work out how/if that fault might go on to become a larger fault and whether it could be repaired or not. The pressure was always on to speed his calculations up, to maybe not see the worst possible outcome, and to be ok with things being just good enough- great advice in many walks of life, (like marriage) but not what you want when you’re 32,000’ in the air

The perseverance of the Campbells is stunning. It’s impossible to say how many lives their actions saved.

The investigators need to be investigated. Blaming these deaths on ground crew to protect Boeing is vile and criminal.

The passenger that took those photos is a f*cking legend!

Fancy being an aviation lawyer for years and then suddenly you’re in your own “situation”. He describes the flight so well you can feel the tension, the fear and the horror of the whole experience.. well done to the crew. Marvellous job all round.

Lee’s parents are unrelenting and awesome. My heart goes out to them.

By miracle Mr. Campbell was an engineer and could understand the intricacies of the door latching mechanism. He and his wife are true heroes for steadfastly investigating the reason for the failure that caused their son's death. They pursued the truth even facing the incompetency of the NTSB and intransigence of the airline, all out of love for their lost son.

I felt awful for the captain. You can see the loss of those passengers still weighs very heavily on him, even though it wasn’t his fault and he at least saved many many lives. Pilots are truly amazing. How they can remain calm in these insane situations. It’s just testimony to their skills

Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are true heroes! We'll never know how many lives their diligence possibly saved!

This was the episode that affected me the most. Imagine literally falling out of a plane to your death...it just overwhelms me just thinking about how afraid those precious people must have been. I feel for every one of their loved ones.

One of the victims, John Swan, was a good friend of mine. I saw him in Japan, just before he flew on to Hawaii to try and recover from a bad cold before heading back to Australia. Feeling better, he caught an earlier flight back home, flight 811. The tragic irony was that John had once worked for Qantas, and I recall him telling me that his job was to promote the safety of 747s when they first arrived. Working in Tokyo, I heard the news of the disastrous flight out of Hawaii and I remember thinking "I hope John wasn't on that flight". It was a great shock when I read his name in the paper the following day.

Aviation lawyer on the flight. He can really say he's experienced.

Pilots have nerves of steel.

I have nothing but admiration for Mr and Mrs Campbell for their perseverance. What sickens me to the core is that I watch a lot of these (the first 18 seasons....so far) and am always interested in how thorough the investigators go in to with these things. Now though, it makes me sick that they deliberately covered this up and what's more, even refused to amend the report to save face/backlash from the airliners for the cost, even when they admitted that they were wrong. How many more of their reports are (knowingly) wrong? It was only for the fact that the Campbells persisted coupled with the sheer chance that it happened again afterwards that they came clean and updated the report. It's the same old question isn't it of who audits the auditors (stolen from who monitors the monitor :-)) We know that the result can never bring people back, but the whole point the investigation boards exist is to make sure these things don't happen again. That first report completely failed on that score!

I am an ex flight attendant. Kudos to the Campbell’s not to give up on what happened. Such a tragedy.

That beautiful young guy's parents showed tremendous love for their son. Even though he lived a very short life, he must have known how special the love of his parents was. In this way, he was a very lucky guy.

These re-enactments are so lifelike. They actors are superb I feel like I'm actually there

This has always been my favorite episode. The lengths those two went to were admirable.

let's not forget the heroic efforts the pilots went through, to bring the damage bird down , saving everyone that was left on board. Congrats to them !

How could the experts miss so completely what a simple engineer not only found out just by himself but could prove beyond doubt?!