Last Friday, Kelly Bartlett boarded an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, California.

It was going to be a one-day event that I had to be at.

So my plan was to take a quick flight out Friday night,

and then I was going to come home the next night.

The plane took off at around 5 p.m. and began climbing into the sky. It got to 10,000 feet, then 11,000 and

eventually it reached 16,000 feet. And it was right then that all the sudden there was just this really loud boom.

I mean that was the most startling thing but it was the combination of the boom plus this gush of wind, which you just don't expect that.

An airplane, I was like, where is that grief coming from?

It was just so unnerving, just all of it.

And then, of course, at the same time the oxygen

mass drop which I've never been on a flight where that's happened before so all of

that in combination was just really scary because you know something's wrong but you don't know what and you

don't know how serious it is.

Kelly didn't know it yet but three rows behind her a panel from the plane had ripped

away leaving a gaping hole in the aircraft.

In the cockpit, pilots radioed air traffic control.

Uh, here, we're not to go down.

Off aircraft to across again?

We've done our Alaska.

Probably through a decline in emergency.

We're defending down to 10,000.

The pressure in the cabin dropped.

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