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Mid-flight. the pilot was able to make an emergency landing after about 20 minutes. one person was taken to the hospital with a minor injury. the faa says its requiring immediate inspections of some of the 737 max 9 planes before they are returned to service. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean has more. >> reporter: a major new development here, the faa says its planning to institute an emergency airworthiness directive, essentially an emergency recall leading to the temporary grounding of ...

Of the planes fuselage. a door can be installed at the boeing factory. it depends on the seating configuration ordered by the airline. this airplane did not have a door. instead, there was a door plug there that you would see from the outside, you wouldnt really know it from the inside. this plane in question rolled off the factory floor only a few months ago, october 15th was the first flight. about 150 flights for alaska airlines since then. this has thrust boeing under the microscope once aga...

Back in portland. a passenger describes the harrowing ordeal. >> i understand from talking to a lady who was sitting in the row immediately behind where the panel blew out, you could see later there was a two-window section panel that blew out thats about as wide as a refrigerator and about two-thirds as high. she said, i guess, a boy and mother was sitting there that row and his shirt was sucked off him and out of the plane, and his mother was holding onto him. she said her own little boys phon...

They were using their best judgment, and i applaud them for that. it certainly was a very harrowing situation for the passengers back there, but the crew did tremendous. >> we celebrate them. thank goodness. when it comes to the analysis of the what happened, you mentioned a seal. this is a space where theres an option for it to be a door or the windows. in this case, you said it was a plug door. what kind of seal is traditionally around it? might that be the area thats compromised, because this...

10,000. >> you can hear the pilots with their muffled voices. likely they had oxygen masks on too. the side of the airplanes fuselage is where this occurred. there is a door that can be installed at the boeing factory. it depends on the seating configuration ordered by the airline. this airplane, in particular, did not have it. instead, it is a plug that you can see on the outside of the plane there. this plane in particular rolled off the factory floor only ten weeks ago. first flight, october ...

Service door, which would become an emergency exit, like i said, its a bank vault type door situation. theres pins that surround that whole thing. the seal is just to reenforce all of that. so having that door come open with a pressurized airplane, its amazing to me. i dont know how that could happen unless it wasnt constructed properly. and if this door was functional in any particular way, the cockpit would have seen a message that said, hey, this door is open. >> so its wise, in your view, th...

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