During an Aloha Airlines flight in 1988, a piece of the fuselage tore loose at 24,000 feet, leaving " blue sky where the first-class ceiling had been," according to the captain.
In January this year, a fuselage panel blew off an Alaska Airlines flight, and recent problems with its Starliner spacecraft have resulted in its crew being stranded in space for several months.
Each will carry enough partially constructed aircraft made up of fuselages, wings and tails, to be assembled into six A320 airliners at Airbus's factories in America.
A commercial passenger plane has been forced to make an emergency landing in Somalia after an explosion ripped a hole in its fuselage. Orlando Teal has the details.