A passenger’s video posted to social media shows a side section of the fuselage, where a window would have been, missing – exposing passengers to the outside air.
The fact that most people were still wearing their seat belts probably stopped them following their possessions through the hole, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
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