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For reference: earlier fuselage failure in 737:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243

edit: Earlier door failures happened to two McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 after they changed their locking mechanism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_96

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981

Situation back then was made worse as it sucked part of the floor out with the door.

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Yeah, if by earlier you mean 35 years ago. In a totally different airplane design. Literally nothing in common with this flight.

It was a fuselage failure, those dont happen all too often. Back then it was because of a lack of maintenance.

It was before i read it was the door though.

edit: In case its not obvious, would be great if you could post other examples. These events in the air are rather rare and i am rather curious for the upcoming ntsb report of this one.

edit1: Apparently the newer one is a 737 from Southwest from 10 years ago, also maintenance issues. But like similar ones it was rather small https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_812

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