At least it was the plane that landed safely, and not the hole. The AP version of this story begins with the sentence: "A foot-long hole in the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines jet en route from Seattle to Burbank, Calif., was forced to make an emergency landing Wednesday."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Emergency-Landing.html
I heard a reported say a hole punctured the fuselage causing it to lose pressurization.
Thank heavens we can laugh at that because it turned out all right!!