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breaking story this morning Alaska Airlines grounding all of its Boeing 737 max9 planes after an emergency landing last night look at this because of a hole in the fuselage The Cabin depressurizing in the air and ABC's Jaclyn Lee is following it all Jaclyn good morning to you hey Joo good morning to you yes we're learning Alaska Airlines is grounding all 65 of those planes after this

incident Now quickly after takeoff the pressure Dr the cabin pressure dropped causing the mass to drop and we're learning according to FAA records this plane has only been in use since October of last year overnight Alaska Airlines grounding its entire fleet of Boeing 737 max9 aircrafts amid serious questions about what caused this hole in the fuselage mid-flight there was a very loud noise and it it

so when the oxygen mask came down my mind was like oh my God something is seriously wrong you could like hear the heavy breathing and then from there I just I just kept thinking of my family it was hard not we were all trying not to panic Alaska Airlines saying the aircraft carrying 171 guests and six crew members landed safely at Portland International Airport telling ABC

News the safety of our guests and employees is always our primary priority so while this type of occurrence is rare our flight crew was trained and prepared to safely manage the situation investigators still trying to pinpoint just what went wrong one of the questions here for the investigators is going to be uh was that a mechanical failure or was that some failure in maintenance and the

CEO of Alaska Airlines says they're only grounding these planes as a precaution and they will only return to service after maintenance and safety inspections Gio all right Jacqueline thank you and we really have to underscore here what a big deal it is for an airline to ground its entire fleet of a certain aircraft because when you're looking at this it does not necessarily mean that there's

anything wrong with all of the planes but they really have to investigate and no doubt about it all of the other airlines they're going to be looking at this too and seeing is there anything we have to do a lot of questions left to be answered all right Gio thank you hi everyone George Stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the ABC News YouTube channel if you'd

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