passengers aboard a southwest flight on friday heard what sounded like an explosion, a 6-foot hole that tore open in the hull. the pilot quickly dove 25,000 pooep feet in four minutes as people were struggling with their oxygen masks and some even passed out. feel it, you could hear it and everybody s ears popping and oxygen masks falling, the unlikely event that they fall, you re supposed to pull them. they fell. all of a sudden, a big pop like a pop can explosion. it sounded like a shot and a lot of air decompressing and it was quick and it was scary. nbc s tom costello is following this story. good morning. good morning. the people on board said this
passengers heard what sounded like an explosion. a six-foot hole had torn open. they quickly dove as people struggled for oxygen masks. some even passed out. you could feel it, hear it, and everybody s ears popping and oxygen mask falling. they fell. i was sleeping on the plane and all after sudden a big pop. it sounded like a shot and a lot of air decompressing. it was quick and it was scary. nbc s tom costello is following this story for us from washington, d.c. with a good morning to you, what a nightmare, tom. so tell me what happened. how long into the flight did this start? reporter: this was a very short time. they had just taken off from phoenix and then had to make the emergency landing there in yuma, arizona, at the military base. the chief culprit here is going
have just happened in the last couple of hours and they ve been pretty significant as well. generally aftershocks will occur for days, for weeks, sometimes even months or a year or more after the weaker one. we had some powerful ones yesterday. today take a look at this list from the usgs website. we ll go down it. there you can see 5.9, 5.1, 5.2. all in the 4s and 5s. quite a range. this goes on and on and on, just to give you an idea how many yf shocks we ve seen in this area. we ll go ahead and show you this google earth map. this is a very active zone. this is along the pacific plate. a lot of seismic activity happens on a regular basis but when a big powerful quake occurs i was trying to thing of a good analogy, don. you have the first big pop that happens. things don t take place and
shepard: a close call for one family as they are sitting in the living room and all of a sudden a bullet rips right through. top story on a fox trip across america. michigan. police say the bullet left a quarter size hole in one wall. then it hit a couch where a grandmother and her 2-year-old granddaughter had been sitting only minutes before. we just heard a noise. a big pop. smoke. the dog took off running where we were. shepard: woman says it may have been hunters. police say it s not a designated hunting zone and whoever fired the shot could face charges. north dakota. one boy dies after falling through ice while another is hospital louiseed. an officer calling it a tragic reminder. the ice is very thin. and, yeah.
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