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Washington Post:

One person dies after engine fails on Southwest flight, forcing emergency landing

One person was killed after an engine failed and forced a Southwest Airlines flight to make an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport on Tuesday, federal investigators said.

Robert Sumwalt, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said that at about 11:15 a.m., the Southwest flight suffered an “apparent in-flight engine failure of the left engine.”

Sumwalt, who confirmed one fatality, said NTSB will ship the engine offsite and deconstruct it to determine what went wrong.

Sumwalt said the death marks the first passenger fatality on a U.S. carrier since 2009. The NTSB declined to speculate on the cause of death. It also marks the first passenger fatality for Southwest.
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more with video at link
 
Live updates currently at https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/southwest-flight-emergency/
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m_term=.d1374910c0b2&wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

It’s our understanding that the passengers on board the aircraft, in addition to the flight crew and the cabin crew, did some pretty amazing things under very difficult circumstances,” Thiel said.

When firefighters reached the airplane, one of the engines was on fire, Thiel said, and the airplane was still leaking fuel when the fire was extinguished.

A passenger tweeted a photo showing the damage.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/on...ces-southwest-emergency-landing-philadelphia/
[FONT=&quot]After an engine on the plane’s left side blew, it threw off shrapnel, shattering a window and causing cabin depressurization that nearly pulled out a female passenger, witnesses told local television station NBC-10.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“A woman was partially, was drawn out of the plane and pulled back in by other passengers; she was the one that was injured,” Todd Bauer, whose daughter was on the flight, told the station.[/FONT]


 
http://www.businessinsider.com/southwest-airlines-engine-failure-terrifying-emergency-landing-2018-4

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The engine on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 is inspected as it sits on the runway at the Philadelphia International Airport after it made an emergency landing, Tuesday, April 17, 2018.

The aircraft has been identified as N772SW. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the 17.8-year-old Boeing 737-700 was delivered new to Southwest Airlines in July 2000.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/southw...landing-today-2018-04-17-live-stream-updates/
After the plane landed, he posted photos of a damaged window near the engine.
Flight 1380 From NYC to Dallas crash landed in Philly. Engine exploded in the air and blew open window 3 seats away from...
Posted by Marty Martinez on Tuesday, April 17, 2018​

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John Goglia, a former NTSB member, said investigators will take the Southwest engine apart to understand what happened and will look at maintenance records for the engine.
"There's a ring around the engine that's meant to contain the engine pieces when this happens," Goglia said. "In this case it didn't. That's going to be a big focal point for the NTSB - why didn't (the ring) do its job?"


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This must have been absolutely terrifying. I feel so sorry for the person who has died and those injured. May they Rest In Peace.
 
wow, so very very sad that one person has died but IMO this could have been so much worse. Wow.
 
My daughter is an FAA-licensed aviation mechanic who is an inspector for a company that sometimes does work for Southwest. They are known to be a very picky customer with high standards. So this will be interesting- and according to her, this is likely a manufacturing defect causing the catastrophic failure.

*She said a lot of other technical words I didn't understand.
 
[video=youtube;1wyWpXGo5Yc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wyWpXGo5Yc[/video]
 
[video=youtube;fgXP4W4_u7g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgXP4W4_u7g[/video]
 
KaaBoom said:
[video=youtube;1wyWpXGo5Yc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wyWpXGo5Yc[/video]
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The video is terrifying, especially with all the noise. You can tell the pilot is doing some fast, precision flying to get the plane down to a lower altitude while turning back to the airport. Great work by Capt. Tammy Jo Schults and the rest of the flight crew.

Latest news says they found part of the engine cowling on the ground in Bernville,PA, about 70 miles from Philadelphia.

RIP to poor Mrs. Riordan.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...odes-midair-on-southwest-flight-idUSKBN1HO2K4

This was a terrible accident, but it could have been much worse. So many planes in the past have crashed when exploding engines did much greater damage to planes.
 
I wonder if they hit a flock of geese or some other birds that got sucked into the engine for it to blow up like that.

I think there was another plane engine failure where it was found to be bird strike that caused the engine to throw parts into the side of the plane. I am going to try to find the news about the other plane I remember.
 
My daughter the aviation mechanic says metal fatigue in the fan base.

And birds cannot survive that high- bird impact is instant trouble and this aircraft was already at cruising altitude.
 
meanmaryjean said:
My daughter the aviation mechanic says metal fatigue in the fan base.

And birds cannot survive that high- bird impact is instant trouble and this aircraft was already at cruising altitude.
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I agree that normally birds would not be that high as most bird strkes happen lower. Migratory geese can fly rather high but not sure if they ever get way up there.

Been trying to find similar incidents where engine parts penetrated the cabin.

Below is a Delta Flight 1288 incident where engine parts broke into the fuselage and killed 2 people and hurt 2 others inside the plane. This one sounds very similar.

"the aircraft experienced an uncontained, catastrophic turbine engine failure that caused debris from the front compressor hub of the number one left engine to penetrate the left aft fuselage."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_1288
 
I found the highest that geese normally fly. There is another species not in US that get incredibly high but normally they fly at this range. So I agree it was likely not related to birds. Hopefully they will do a good investigation into why engine failed.

"Canada geese typically fly at an altitude of 2,000 to 8,000 feet, although pilots have reported sightings of Canada geese at altitudes of up to 9,000 feet."

https://americanexpedition.us/learn-about-wildlife/canada-goose-facts-information-photos/

This is the species that can fly the highest

" In 2009, Hawkes and an international team of researchers tagged 25 bar-headed geese in India with GPS transmitters. Shortly thereafter, the birds left on their annual spring migration to Mongolia and surrounding areas to breed.


To get there, the geese have to fly over the Himalaya—the world's tallest mountain range and home to the tallest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest, which rises to 29,035 feet (8,850 meters).

https://news.nationalgeographic.com...lying-birds-geese-himalaya-mountains-animals/


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gregjrichards said:
This must have been absolutely terrifying. I feel so sorry for the person who has died and those injured. May they Rest In Peace.
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Yes prayers for all involved. Terrifying for sure.

This is a good time to remind people to wear seat belts at all times when flying in airplanes.

I dont fly in planes too much but I seem to remember years ago they used to turn off the seat belt lights and basically tell you that you can walk around the cabin if you want.

They dont do that anymore I dont think. The last time I recall traveling I think they kept the lights on and made an announcement that encouraged you to keep your seat belts on unless you had to go to the bathroom. For people that travel often maybe someone can confirm what the pilot says about the seat belts when they hit cruising altitude.
 
This story gave me nightmares last night. I can't even imagine how horrifying this was for everyone.

That pilot is a friggin' hero — she saved hundreds of lives, both in-air and on the ground.

I realize we're far, far, far more likely to die in a car crash than a plane crash, but that doesn't really curb my fear of flying. Especially if I'm sitting near the wing/engine ... ugh. I'm so grateful there were so few casualties and that so few were injured.

Annnnnnnd, anyone else here seen the Twilight Zone movie? The short called "A Face in the Window"?

Yeah ... that was incorporated into my nightmares last night, too. LOL

[video=youtube;ctHltBauGc8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctHltBauGc8[/video]
 
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