Emergency Landing As Cabin Panels Come Apart

By Sky News US Team

A Dallas-bound American Airlines flight has made an emergency landing after some of the cabin's wall panels cracked loose, officials said.

The captain of the Boeing 757 decided to turn around an hour into the flight from San Francisco because of a possible blown air duct, airline spokesman Matt Miller said.

No one on the plane, which had 184 passengers and six crew members on board, was hurt, but people started panicking in the cabin when pieces starting coming off.

The plane being towed away

James Wilson, of Kyle, Texas, said he felt the fuselage violently shake and heard popping noises coming from outside of the plane as it made its initial ascent.

Then passengers watched in horror and screamed for the flight attendants to come as interior panels on both sides of the aircraft pulled apart from the walls.

"It was the whole row 14 on all sides, from the floor to the ceiling," Mr Wilson said.

"It sounded like it was popping and banging so loud at first I thought stuff was coming out of the overhead compartments.

"It was terrifying, we didn't know what was going on, we were all shouting to the flight crew."

Despite the concerns of nervous passengers, the captain announced that the flight would continue on to Dallas because the pressure inside the cabin was stable, Mr Wilson said.

But he said the captain changed his mind and decided to make the emergency landing after he saw the damaged panels for himself.

Aviation safety experts said that while it is disconcerting for passengers to see any piece of the plane break, the cabin's wall panels are not part of the plane's structure.

The cabin did not lose pressure and oxygen masks did not deploy.

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