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Re:Air India Express 737 Hits ILS, Damages Wall on Departure... by spectre256 on Friday October 12, 2018 @08:59PM (#18205770)
It totally depends. A weakened structure can hold pressurization for a while, and then suddenly (and possibly catastrophically) fail.

A famous example of this is American Airlines flight 96 (1972): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_96

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Re:Air India Express 737 Hits ILS, Damages Wall on Departure... by jedmeyers on Friday October 12, 2018 @09:03PM (#18205786)
Also Japan Airlines Flight 123
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