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Federal officials caution against holding infants on laps during flights due to safety concerns after Alaska incident.

Tragedy may have been averted Friday night when a panel of Boeing plane blew out as the Alaska Airlines flight traveled at 16,000 feet, an NTSB official said Saturday night.

Some cases have brought odown te plane. a turkish plane came down because of it. so it is a very big deal and the passengers are fortunate that they were belted in and no one went out. on other flights with rapid decompression, parts of the aircraft have been lost and passengers or crew have been lost, as in aloha airlines, which was not a door, it was part of the roof of the plane in the '80s. so it's a very big deal for boeing, the airline, and all operators of this aircraft. >> i'm taken by what you just said, that this has happened before, including with a turkish airline. tell us the wors...

York, from another family home in north carolina. and that their grandchild is 2 years old. investigators are expected to be at the scene later today. >> brian todd, thank you. >> thank you so much. joining us now aviation correspondent. good morning to you. what can be ruled out right now? >> a lot can be ruled out here, poppy. but all of the signs point to that this was a rapid dep decompression of this cessna jet. the air inside is pressurized enabling those to breathe normal air while outside the air is thin and unbreathable. this is very similar, very likely, to the payne stewart crash ...

More information and while we do that let me bring in mary schiavo, former inspector general at the department of transportation. mary, hearing that another incident has happened regardless is frightening, but when you see another image of a window, a cracked window on another southwest airline flight, what are your first questions here? >> well, obviously, the first question is how did the crack originate? i mean, there are many ways that they can start, but that's going to be the first question and of course, now the whole country knows how dangerous cracked windshields can be, whether it's ...