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Airlines plane's fuselage fell off in mid—air on friday. the faa said its first priority was "keeping the flying public safe". the grounding of the jets has had an immediate impact on travellers. alaska airlines cancelled a further 170 flights on sunday on top of the 160 flights it cancelled on saturday. the airline said approximately a8,000 passengers have been affected already. and united airlines says it cancelled 180 flights on sunday after already cancelling 90 on saturday. both airlines told passengers to expect more cancellations throughout the week. the us national transportation saf...

You probably won't ask for an exit row seat again after this

Planes after that flight's plane lost a chunk of its cell mid air forcing an emergency landing in portland. a plug door blew off the plane while it was 16,000 feet in the sky. >> alaska, we just depressurized. >> reporter: the 171 passengers and six crew members on board the aircraft friday evening were headed to ontario, california. videos taken from inside the plane show passengers appearing calm. >> i heard a big bang. i looked to my left and there's a huge chunk, a part of the airplane missing. >> there was a kid in that row. his shirt was sucked off him and out of the plane. >> reporter: ...

This is not unusual from that standpoint. i guess alaska decided, because they have enough exits for an emergency evacuation situation, they didn't necessarily have to utilize this door, so they utilized it for seating. >> thank you so much. of course, we are all glad that all passengers and all crew are okay. pretty shaken up probably, but okay. still to come, the gop presidential candidates campaigning in iowa today in a final push to voters ahead of the iowa caucuses. our team is there.

Captain les aban. what's your reaction to hear that a piece of 737 would simply fall off, get sucked away and frighten a lot of people? >> i'm flabbergasted. it's hard for me to imagine, regardless of the fact that alaska does or does not utilize that particular section as an emergency exit. that was a service door. pete did a great job of describing what that was all about. at the end of the day, it's a plug-type door, is what we call it. it's like a bank vault. that door, if it was used as an emergency exit, should have sealed tight against that airplane. how it came out is just unfathomable...