He thought about his family, and whether he'd see them again. "Everyone kind of descended on where this hole was," he said. Passenger Matt Tranchin watched the commotion as people tried to help.
"It was very loud, so announcements from the pilot or any other crew would not have been heard," passenger Amy Serafini said. Flight tracking website FlightRadar24 estimated the plane descended from 31,684 feet to 10,000 feet in a little over five minutes. In the chaos, it was hard to hear anyone. "We could feel the air from the outside coming in, and then we had smoke kind of coming in the window," Martinez said. Those items got sucked out of the plane, too, he said. Others stuffed clothes and jackets into the gaping hole on the window, said Martinez, who was sitting two rows away from the woman. "As the plane is going down, I am literally purchasing internet just so I can get some kind of communication to the outside world."Īs the plane quickly descended, passengers close to the woman scrambled to hold her tight. "Everybody was going crazy, and yelling and screaming," Martinez said. The shattered window partially sucked a woman out of the plane as passengers struggled to pull her back in. Something in the engine broke apart midair and burst through the window, passengers said. It just didn't register what could have been." "I heard a loud boom and about five seconds later, all the oxygen masks deployed," he said. Then what sounded like an explosion suddenly jolted the plane, passenger Marty Martinez said. For about 20 minutes, everything seemed calm. The Boeing 737 was headed to Dallas with 144 passengers and five crew members. Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 took off from LaGuardia at 10:43 a.m., and landed in Philadelphia about 11:20 a.m., federal officials said. What followed was a terrifying sequence of events that ended with one woman dead,seven people injured and an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport. Oxygen masks swiftly dangled from the ceiling. Suddenly, the alarms blared in the cockpit as what sounded like explosions boomed from the left side of the plane. The plane was flying at 32,500 feet Tuesday morning as passengers settled in for the three-hour flight.
She later died.The airline said Tuesday it was cooperating with the NTSB's investigation.Additional reporting from Newsy affiliate CNN.Trending stories at The Inventor Of Bump Stocks Will Soon Stop Taking OrdersIRS Extends Tax Deadline After Page OutageNTSB Launches Probe Into Deadly Southwest Airlines Engine Failureįor 20 minutes, the Southwest Airlines jet was a normal flight from New York to Dallas with 149 people aboard. The woman sitting next to it was pulled partially out of the plane, according to other passengers. But whether or not there was an actual fire with the engine, I do not believe there was an actual fire,' NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt said Tuesday.One of the pilots was getting praise from passengers Tuesday night for how she handled the emergency landing.When the engine failed, debris hit a window on the jet, breaking it.
Later, she told ATC, 'No fire now, but we are single engine.''There are fire wires that when they are - it's possible and even likely that once this fan blade separated, it activated an engine fire warning in the cockpit. That's right near where the pilots first noticed a problem.The NTSB said there was evidence on the plane's engine of metal fatigue where a fan blade separated from the jet.One of the pilots initially told air traffic controllers there was a fire in the engine before later clarifying.'Southwest 1380 has an engine fire - descending,' one of the pilots said. The National Transportation Safety Board says it found one of the plane's engine cowlings in Bernville, Pennsylvania. Investigators say they found a piece of the Southwest Airlines plane that had an engine blow Tuesday 70 miles outside Philadelphia.
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