 Federal officials on Saturday ordered the immediate grounding of Boeing 737 MAX-9 jetliners until they are inspected after an Alaska Airlines plane suffered a blowout that left a gaping hole in the side of the fuselage. The required inspections take around four to eight hours per aircraft and affect about 171 airplanes worldwide.as of Saturday morning. Inspections on more than a quarter of the fleet were complete with no concerning findings. The company said.a and Alaska Airlines jetliner blew out a window and a portion of its fuselage shortly after takeoff three miles above Oregon late Friday, creating a gaping hole that forced the pilots to make an emergency landing as its 174 passengers and six crew members donned oxygen masks. As strong as those planes are, you could blow a hole like that because the hole was about as wide as a refrigerator and about two thirds as high when I finally got to see it later. We just heard like a loud bang or like a boom and I looked up and the air masks are like out popped down and I looked to my left and there's just a huge like gaping hole. At first I thought it was the emergency door but there was no door there. It was just like a part of the wall that flew off. Everything went swell. Like I said, the cabin crew did an excellent job. Pilot did a great job. I can't say anything bad about them at all.