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I remember that happening at the time, how the captain survived isn’t much short of a miracle. Amazing.

I later studied that case at uni as an aircraft tech. Turned out someone filled the correct parts bin with the wrong screws. The tech duly fitted them but they were a few mm too short. It also highlighted a design flaw in that the window was fitted from the outside. If the window had been fitted from the inside, the window flanges meant it couldn’t have popped out under pressure regardless of missing screws. Scary stuff.