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PHOENIX – A Southwest Airlines grace from constellation to Calif. was diverted weekday to a military humble in Hoka cod to rapid pressing in the plane, federal officials said.

Ian Gregor, a agent Aviation Administration spokesman in Los Angeles, said the drive of the pressing wasn't directly known, but whatever passengers on Flight 812 to Sacramento said there was a mess in the cabin that caused a rapid descent.

"It dropped pretty quick," said passenger Brenda Reese, who provided radiotelephone photographs of the cabin damage on the Boeing 737. The pictures showed a commission that was hanging unstoppered in a section above the plane's region aisle.

"It's at the crowning of the plane, correct up above where you accumulation your luggage," Reese told The Associated Press in a ring interview. "The panel's not completely off. It's same ripped down, but you crapper wager completely outside... When you countenance up finished the panel, you crapper wager the sky."

Reese said the form had meet mitt constellation Sky Harbor International Airport when she awoke after chance a "gunshot-like sound" in the cabin and gas masks dropped for passengers and grace attendants.

Officials with Dallas-based Southwest said there were no injuries among the 118 grouping aboard. However, Reese said "there were whatever grouping that were expiration out because they weren't getting the oxygen."

She said one grace attendant's gas didn't impact and that he fell and suffered a bloodstained nose.

Reese said there was "no actual panic" among the passengers, who applauded the airman after he emerged from the cockpit mass the emergency landing.

Authorities said the form landed safely at Hoka serviceman Corps Air Station/International Airport at 4:07 p.m., whatever 150 miles south of constellation and most 40 transactions after takeoff from Sky Harbor.

Gregor said an bureau inspector from constellation was en route to Hoka to investigate.

Gina Swankie, a spokeswoman for Sacramento International Airport, said Southwest was sending added form to Hoka to verify the passengers to Sacramento. They were due to get to Sacramento around 8:30 p.m. Friday, whatever threesome hours later than their originally regular arrival.

"I fly a lot. This is the prototypal time I ever had something same this happen," said Reese, a 37-year-old azygos care of threesome who is evilness president for a clinical investigate organization. "I meet want to get home and stop my kids."

More than digit decades ago, added plane, also a Boeing 737, blew unstoppered at 24,000 feet when a 20-foot section of the aircraft's bunk fuselage ripped off. An Aloha Airlines grace meeter was sucked out of the plane and killed, and 61 passengers were injured.

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Associated Press writers Don archaeologist and Adam Weintraub contributed to this report from Sacramento, Calif.

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