Madeline "Mimi" Tompkins is an airline pilot who gained international fame on April 28, 1988, as the First Officer on Aloha Airlines flight 243, which landed safely after an explosive decompression in flight. A native of Port Acres, Texas, Tompkins was the first woman to work as a pilot for Aloha Airlines. On April 28, 1988, Tompkins was co-piloting a Boeing 737-200 from Hilo to Honolulu, Hawaii.
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- Madeline "Mimi" Tompkins is an airline pilot who gained international fame on April 28, 1988, as the First Officer on Aloha Airlines flight 243, which landed safely after an explosive decompression in flight. A native of Port Acres, Texas, Tompkins was the first woman to work as a pilot for Aloha Airlines. On April 28, 1988, Tompkins was co-piloting a Boeing 737-200 from Hilo to Honolulu, Hawaii. As the aircraft reached its cruising altitude of 24,000 feet, the roof of the cabin forward of the wings suffered an explosive decompression incident, which tore most of the roof off and swept away one of the flight attendants. The aircraft was diverted to Maui where Tompkins assisted in the emergency descent. The heavily crippled airliner was able to land with no further injuries to those on board. Tompkins also assisted the passengers down the emergency evacuation slides. The accident prompted industry-wide changes in the maintenance requirements for all aging aircraft in the United States. Tompkins later became Aloha Airlines' first female Captain and remained flying the Boeing 737-200, as well as the Boeing 737-700 on transpacific routes until Aloha's last day of business. She has since been hired as a First Officer for Hawaiian Airlines (as of May 1st, 2008) Reports surfaced of a passenger named Madeline Tompkins dying on American Airlines Flight 587 in New York City in November, 2001, but these bear no relation to the pilot of flight 243.
- Madeline Lynn „Mimi“ Tompkins ist eine US-amerikanische Pilotin. Mimi Tompkins war die erste Pilotin der hawaiischen Fluggesellschaft Aloha Airlines und begann ihre Karriere als Co-Pilotin auf der Boeing 737-200. International bekannt wurde sie als Co-Pilotin des Aloha-Airlines-Flugs 243 vom 28. April 1988. In 24.000 Fuß Höhe erlitt das Flugzeug einen plötzlichen Druckverlust, ausgelöst durch den Abriss eines Drittels des Kabinendaches. Tomkins assistierte Flugkapitän Robert Schornstheimer beim folgenden Notsinkflug und der anschließenden Notlandung auf Maui. Tompkins wurde später die erste Flugkapitänin der Aloha Airlines und flog weiterhin Boeing 737-200 und Boeing 737-700 auf den transpazifischen Routen dieser Airline, bis diese am 1. April 2008 den Flugbetrieb einstellte. Seitdem ist sie bei Hawaiian Airlines als Erster Offizier beschäftigt.
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- Madeline "Mimi" Tompkins is an airline pilot who gained international fame on April 28, 1988, as the First Officer on Aloha Airlines flight 243, which landed safely after an explosive decompression in flight. A native of Port Acres, Texas, Tompkins was the first woman to work as a pilot for Aloha Airlines. On April 28, 1988, Tompkins was co-piloting a Boeing 737-200 from Hilo to Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Madeline Lynn „Mimi“ Tompkins ist eine US-amerikanische Pilotin. Mimi Tompkins war die erste Pilotin der hawaiischen Fluggesellschaft Aloha Airlines und begann ihre Karriere als Co-Pilotin auf der Boeing 737-200. International bekannt wurde sie als Co-Pilotin des Aloha-Airlines-Flugs 243 vom 28. April 1988. In 24.000 Fuß Höhe erlitt das Flugzeug einen plötzlichen Druckverlust, ausgelöst durch den Abriss eines Drittels des Kabinendaches.
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