All eight passengers seated in these locations were killed (seats 8G and 12G were unoccupied), as was the passenger in seat 9F. Pressure differentials and aerodynamic forces caused the cabin floor to cave in, and ten seats (G and H of rows 8 through 12) were ejected from the cabin. The door swung out with such force that it passed its normal stop and slammed into the side of the fuselage, bursting the fuselage open. United Airlines Flight 811, a Boeing 747-122 also experienced an accident similar to this, however the aircraft did not explode and landed safely, with a gaping hole in the right side of fuselage section 42, which was caused when the forward cargo door blew off. Also, several people on the ground were also killed due to parts of the aircraft crashing to the ground. Many of the passengers were thrown out of the plane and fell to their deaths. It is also loosely based on the crash of Pan Am Flight 103, a Boeing 747-121 (Clipper Maid Of The Seas) in December 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Trans World Airlines is identified as Boeing Customer 31, and the aircraft is a -100 series, thus "-131". The aircraft was a 25-year-old Boeing 747-131, built in 1971, initially ordered by Eastern Airlines, but purchased by Trans Word Airlines as brand new and registered as N93119 after Eastern cancelled its orders for the 747. Critic Roger Ebert, who praised the film, called this allusion "a bit tasteless".
Flight 180 has been confirmed to be loosely based on the real life disaster of TWA Flight 800 that occurred on Jnear East Moriches, New York en route to Rome, with a stopover in Paris, with high school students and had also experienced an in-flight explosion due to a spark igniting the Center Wing Track.
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