An emergency landing by the “holed” Southwest Airline Flight

In the United States a passenger plane has made a tragic landing due to a gaping holed roof because of unexpected drop in cabin pressure.

Flight 182 of Southwest Airlines from Phoenix to Sacramento landed carefully at an army air base in Arizona. The passengers heard a bang as the roof panel blew open in the cabin. One woman passenger told, we can watch entirely on the outside.

Passengers heard a bang as the roof panel blew open in the cabin. "You can see completely outside," one woman told the Associated Press news agency. However it was not obvious what caused the fuselage to burst. I just want to go home and hold my childes.

An FBI spokesman said terrorism issue was not doubted and "it shows to be a mechanical fault.

Brenda Reese, a passenger said the plane had just flown from Phoenix when she heard a noise like o gunfire. She told by her telephone from the plane, “It’s the top of the plane, where you put up your baggage. "The panel's not fully closed. It's like ripped down, when you look up through the panel, you can easily watch the sky." She said the plane go down very fast.

Another woman told, they had just taken drink orders when I listened a massive noise and oxygen masks came fall. "There was a hole in the fuselage about three feet long. You could watch the insulation and the wiring. The woman told a local TV, you can watch a tear the length of one of the ceiling panels.

Aviation officials said the pilot made a quick, controlled on drop. The National Transportation Safety Board said an "in-flight fuselage burst" led to the rapid descent and drop in cabin pressure. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said "We don’t understand the reason of the decompression.

In a statement Southwest Airlines said no wounded were reported amid the 118 travelers on board. One flight attendant was somewhat wounded.