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Oxygen masked dropped from the overhead compartment. the faa said the pilots made a rapid yet controlled decent from 36,000 feet to 11,000 feet . passengers say many were texting and calling their loved ones because they feared this plane was going down. >> we don't quite get what is going on. you hear a noise and it be happening it is a movie. but you could tell manage was wrong and you could tell the urgeency in the staff and trying to keep everybody calm. >> flight 812 made a safe landing in a military base in uma, arizona. 7:where are7 eastern time last night. there were 118 passengers and...

Thanks so much for joining us. this morning, experts are working to determine what caused a hole to tear right into the roof of a southwest airlines flight out of arizona, and the airline is taking a closer look now at all of its fleet. the flight recorders from flight 812 arrived at ntsb headquarters in washington. officials hope they carry clues about the terrifying mishap. investigators in yuma, arizona, where the plane landed, will remove a section of the plane around the hole to examine the metal. meanwhile, southwest has grounded 80 planes to inspect their aluminum skin. the inspection...

All across the airline industry. southwest immediately grounded 79 of its 737s for inspection. you're looking at video of some of the southwest planes undergoing inspection today near seattle. fellow investigators say the southwest plane that made an emergency landing has widespread cracking in its fuselage. that may have led to the large hole popping open in the top of the plane. 18 minutes into the flight. hundreds of flights were abruptly cancelled. thousands of travelers saw their plans come to a sudden stop. what that means for upcoming air travel and southwest's pending merger with airtr...

The nicotine would be drawn up. where theres with a nicotine stain there was a crack. now, no smoking on plane, so it's difficult to see the hairline cracks in the fuselage. they have to be done with high-tech tools. megyn: bizarre. so we were safer when people were smoking on board the airplanes. >> reporter: in a way we were. megyn: all right. thank you for that, trace. they're calling it a bad april fools' day joke. passengers on board that flight, flight 812, reliving the fehr phiiing moment when the cabin lost pressure, oxygen masks dropped and the jet started to descend. we'll talk to th...