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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 it's 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 it's planning to institute an emergency airworthiness directive, essentially an emergency recall leading to the temporary grounding of the boeing 737 max 9 planes. this latest incident happened in an explosive moment, like the most v...

Of the plane's 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 wouldn't 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 again, the latest in a litany of issues with the 737 max family. killed 346 people in two crashes abr...

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 that's 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 boy's phone went out too. >> incredible. pete muntean is tracking all the latest documents. what do we know ...

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 there's 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 that's compromised, because this is something that is customary on a lot of planes. something obviously went wrong. this is a 10-w...

10,000. >> you can hear the pilots with their muffled voices. likely they had oxygen masks on too. the side of the airplane's 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 15th. 150 flights for alaska airlines since then. boeing now under the microscope once again after ...