Large hole discovered after Southwest flight makes emergency landing [View All]

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely at a military base in Yuma, Arizona, on Friday with what passengers described as a 3-foot hole in the fuselage of the Boeing 737.

"I heard a loud popping sound ... about three or four minutes before ... then it blew open," passenger Greg Hanson told CNN affiliate KOVR.

"You can see the blue sky from your seat," he said in a phone interview from the plane.

Hanson described the hole as being about 3 or 4 feet long and about a foot wide.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/01/arizona.flight.diverted/index.html