meantime, southwest airlines telling fox news that it has grounded about 79 of its boeing 737s for inspection which translates into roughly 300 cancellations of southwest flights around the cuptry. now, this all happened friday night about 35 minutes into the flight when a southwest jet airliner departed phoenix sky harbor international airport and was heading to sacramento when passengers say they heard a loud noise and then a giant hole appeared in the fuselage. passengers say that the whole spanned several rows, if you can believe that. many on board snapping pictures with their cell phones. you can see the insulation and wiring hanging down from the aircraft sealing. passengers say the hole was 3 to 4 feet long and about a foot wide. then 45 seconds or so after the portion of the roof split, oxygen masks dropped from the overhead compartment. the faa says the pilots of the
portion of the roof opened, oxygen masks dropped from the overhead compartment. faa says the pilot made a rapid and controlled descent from 36,000 feet to 11,000 feet. many were testing and calling their loved ones because they feared the plane was going down. you don t know what is going on. you hear the horrible noise. come on, it can t be happening. it s a movie. something was definitely wrong and you can tell the urgency in the staff. reporter: now flight 812 made an acknowledged go at yuma international airport last night. 118 passengers and five crew members were on board. though there were no reports of major injuries, though a flight attendant fell and suffered a minor cut to the head.
oxygen masked dropped from the overhead compartment. the faa said the pilots made a rapid yet controlled decent from 36,000 feet to 11,000 feet . passengers say many were texting and calling their loved ones because they feared this plane was going down. we don t quite get what is going on. you hear a noise and it be happening it is a movie. but you could tell manage was wrong and you could tell the urgeency in the staff and trying to keep everybody calm. flight 812 made a safe landing in a military base in uma, arizona. 7:where are7 eastern time last night. there were 118 passengers and five crew members on board and no reports miraclously of major injuries. the a flight attendant fell and suffered a minor cut to the head. now the ntsb and national
they fly restrained. so why allow children to sit on their parents laps? well, the government fears families won t be able to afford a separate seat and will choose to travel by car instead. and deadly auto accidents are far more common than plane crashes. have you thought about the child on your lap? reporter: the debate has gone on for decades. one baby died after his mother lost her grip on him in this iowa plane crash. another baby was later found in an overhead compartment, amazingly alive. still, the government only recommends safety seats. and it s a hard sell for already overloaded parents. only about 1 in 5 say they use a car seat on a plane. going down. reporter: during the hudson river crash, jim whitaker involved to hold a 9-month-old boy who had been sitting on his mother s lap. i turned him sideways and held him like a football, one
recycled pan lids and this is called the percussion ball. each hole has a different length tube in it. the first one is fen feet long. the length of the tube determines the pitch or the note you re getting. thank you, good night! ken, if you come back to the office without that thing, that thing that makes noise when you hit it with light, i ll be very angry. i m going to need a bigger desk, i m just saying right now. and maybe a larger overhead compartment for the flight home. that goes without saying. thank you, ken. happy vacation. thank you. names, ranks and corresponding shamelessness. coming up next, as republican politicians try to run on the democrats policy achievements this year, there is downlow, grainy, evidence ahead. announce] what is performance? 0 to 60? or 60 to 0?