hello. and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m michael holmes. a terrifying incident leaves many boeing 737 max 9s temporarily grounded and 177 passengers and crew feeling lucky to be alive. we re actually now waiting for a news briefing from the u.s. national transportation safety board. that s set to begin at any minute, and we will bring it to you live. they ll be discussing what happened on alaska airlines flight 1282 on friday. officials and witnesses say a part of the fuselage called a plug blew off during the plane s ascent leaving a gaping doorway sized hole in the side of the jet while it was an altitude of 16,000 feet. that s around 4,900 meters. incredibly the plane made a successful emergency landing and there were injuries but none of them serious. now, after the alaska airlines emergency, the u.s. federal aviation administration temporarily grounded certain boeing 737 max 9 aircraft operated by u.s. airlines or in u.s. terri
hello, i m ben thompson, welcome to the programme. we begin with a developing story hamas says its deputy head saleh al arouri has been killed in a blast in beirut, in lebanon. local media have described the explosion as an israeli drone attack on the hamas office in the south of the city. reports say five other people were killed in the blast. video footage shows a car in flames and damage to buildings in a busy residential area known as a hezbollah stronghold. the israeli military has told the bbc it will not comment the israeli military said whoever did this it was a surgical strike against hamas leadership. we did reach out to them after local media as you mentioned, attributed this blast to an israeli drone attack, we reached out to the idf who came back to the bbc and said they would not comment on reports from foreign media. we did get confirmation that saleh al?arouri, the deputy head, or deputy chairman of hamas political bureau has been killed in this blast, and
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Transportation officials say the midair blowout on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 could have been calamitous if it had happened a little later in the flight.