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Sunroof in the middle of the plane a big old hole. seeing daylight running through it. >> all of a sudden the oxygen mask dropped and everyone was just trying to get the mask on. >> southwest's entire fleet is made up of various models of boeing 73. 548 them of the fleet has an average age of just over 11 years. each aircraft six flights per day just under 11 hours each day. southwest is awaiting government approval to buy airtran airways. the worst accident of this type, though, was 23 years ago over hawaii. a flight attendant died and many people were hurt. i spoke with one of the passengers...

It's not a quick oh, this plane is old and this is what happened by any stretch of the imagination. this absolutely shouldn't happen. in fact the the investigator from the ntsb stressed that. he said planes should a hole in them after they take off. that is their goal, to figure out exactly what happened here. one thing we should stress is the hole you're looking at has been covered by investigators, so it appears to be a little larger than it actually is because they have put some sort of covering on it. >> ted rolands in yuma, thank you very much, ted. great reporting there. we'll get back t...