The plane landed on a military base in Yuma, Arizona. There was a loud popping noise right before it blew open. The fuselage is the main body of the plane that holds people or cargo. The plane descended from 36,000 to 11,000 rapidly. "All the people on the plane had white knuckles holding on to their arm rests," Greg Hansen who was a passenger on the plane said to CNN. The flight was going from Phoenix, Arizona to Sacramento, California carrying 118 passengers. Ian Gregor from the FAA said, "They do not know the cause of the decompression" or why the blow out happened. The incident took place 35 minutes in to the flight.
This last summer I had the opportunity to fly to Washington D.C. If I was on this plane I would be very scared and would not know what to do. The flight attendants would have to be good if they had to make an emergency landing. They reported that it took 45 seconds for the oxygen masks to drop. That would feel like a long time in this situation.
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