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Engine explodes during Southwest flight
By Danielle Furfaro and Aaron Feis
April 17, 2018 | 12:35pm | Update


A woman was nearly sucked out of a Southwest Airlines flight Tuesday when an engine exploded in midair, causing shrapnel to shatter the jet’s window, according to terrified passengers.

The left engine of Flight 1380 — bound for Dallas from LaGuardia Airport — suddenly burst around 11:30 a.m. as the plane was near Philadelphia, passengers said on social media.

A piece of shrapnel from the explosion blew out a window, and a female passenger was partially sucked out the hole, sending her fellow fliers scrambling to her rescue.

“One passenger, a woman, was partially … was drawn out towards the out of the plane … was pulled back in by other passengers,” Todd Baur, the father of a passenger, told NBC10.

Marty Martinez, who was aboard the flight, said a female flier — it’s unclear whether it was the same woman nearly sucked out — suffered a heart attack in the chaos.

“Someone on the plane had a heart attack and it looks like an engine blew out then a window was blown open,” he said on Facebook. “We are still on the plane and they are trying to revive a woman on the plane.”

The Boeing 737-700 made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport, where its 143 customers and five crew members were being deplaned, Southwest said in a statement.

On the tarmac, Joe Marcus tweeted a photo of the plane’s mangled engine, captioned, “What a flight! Made it!! Still here!!”

The airline didn’t immediately offer any official insight into what caused the terrifying breakdown.



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1 dead after Southwest airplane with 149 aboard makes emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport
Updated: April 17, 2018 — 7:37 PM EDT

One passenger died and seven others were injured Tuesday morning when a Southwest Airlines plane flying from New York to Dallas apparently blew an engine in midair, sending smoke into the cabin and forcing an emergency landing in Philadelphia.

The flight was carrying five crew members and 144 passengers, some of whom described hearing a loud boom mid-flight before a window blew out, and the smoke-filled plane suddenly felt as if it dropped in the air.

“Everybody knew something’s going on — ‘This is bad, like really bad,’” passenger Timothy Bourman, a 37-year-old pastor from Queens, NY said in a phone interview from the terminal as emergency personnel surrounded the plane on a runway at Philadelphia International Airport. “A lot of people started panicking and yelling, just real scared.”

Pilots ultimately managed to guide the plane to a safe landing. But one injured passenger, identified as Jennifer Riordan of Albuquerque, N.M., was rushed to an area hospital, where she died Tuesday afternoon. Riordan had worked as vice president of community relations at a Wells Fargo in New Mexico.

Officials did not explain how she died. They said other passengers were treated for minor injuries.

The incident — the first airline accident to result in a fatality since 2009 — quickly made national headlines as news cameras aired live footage of the grounded plane, its mangled engine appearing to be burst open. Passengers shared images and videos on social media from inside the cabin, sparking widespread interest while official details were scarce.

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'Angels' and training help former fighter pilot save Southwest flight
By Andrew Hay
April 18, 2018

(Reuters) - The pilot who safely landed a stricken Southwest Airlines flight on Tuesday got her first flying experience in the U.S. Navy, touching down F-18 fighter jets at 150 miles per hour on aircraft carriers.

Tammie Jo Shults, 56, may have drawn on her Navy skills when one of the two engines on her Boeing 737-700 blew and broke apart at 32,000 feet on Tuesday, forcing her to implement a rapid descent towards Philadelphia International Airport.

The explosion killed one passenger and nearly sucked another out of a shattered window.

One of the first female fighter pilots in the U.S. Navy, Shults calmly told air traffic control that part of her plane was missing, and she would need ambulances on the runway.

"So we have a part of the aircraft missing so we're going to need to slow down a bit," Shults told a controller.

Many of the 144 passengers sang her praise on social media after Shults thanked them for their bravery as they left the plane.

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