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the inspections were ordered after part of the fuselage of an alaska airlines plane blew out in mid—air. here's our north america correspondent david willis. this giant hole opened up after a panel on the side of the plane dislodged only a few minutes after it had taken off with 171 passengers on board. there was just a really loud boom, which was so startling, and the plane just filled with wind and air. and it's just crazy, because that shouldn't happen, right? you know something's wrong and you don't know what. i didn't know where the air was coming from. the oxygen masks dropped. 171 planes of the same type remained grounded by the us regulator as the safety investigation got under way, and a massive search began for the missing panel — which landed in the back garden of a local physics teacher's home. when i went to investigate it, it was very obviously part of a plane. it had the same curvature as a fuselage. it had a plane—type window in it and it was white, which is why it was gleaming.