The story sounds like rubbish too. The only story I know of in which a commercial airliner lost a significant part of its fuselage near the front is the Aloha Airlines flight 243 where a 737 had about six metres of upper fuselage peel away. The only person to die was a single flight attendant who wasn't seated at the time.
The Turkish DC-10 cargo door disaster had some rows of seats fall out (from memory) but they were all near the tail - well away from first class.
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