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There's at least seven door incidents listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontrolled_decompression, not all causing hull loss, but with over 500 fatalities in total.See the crash of Dan-Air flight 240 . . .
Doors Better Left Closed: The crash of Dan-Air flight 240
A bizarre accident unfolds over England when a loose baggage door becomes lodged on the tail of an HS 748.admiralcloudberg.medium.com
" . . . a badly designed baggage door had come open in flight, ripped off the fuselage, and wrapped itself around the horizontal stabilizer, crippling the pilots’ ability to control the pitch of their airplane."
cheers,
Robin.
And it's notable in that Dan Air incident that the door had been wrongly assembled, which directly contributed to it coming open. What's that line about failing to learn the lessons of the past....