Audio reveals how an Alaska Airlines pilot calmly performed an emergency landing after a hole blew in plane's side

• An Alaska Airlines plane made an emergency landing after a hole blew in the side of the fuselage.
• Newly released audio reveals how the pilot calmly guided the plane to safety.
• The plane carrying 177 passengers turned back to Portland, and no one was injured.

Newly released audio reveals how the pilot of the Alaska Airlines flight that lost parts of its fuselage mid-flight calmly guided the plane to safety.

Alaska Airlines flight 1282 was heading from Portland to California when a chunk of its fuselage blew off, leaving a giant hole in the side of the plane and forcing it to make an emergency landing.