A Southwest Airlines passenger plane made an emergency landing Tuesday after an engine exploded and broke a window that partially sucked a woman out of the plane.
WACU reported that a piece of engine shrapnel flew into and broke a passenger window, creating an opening that began sucking a female passenger out of the plane. The woman had to be pulled back in by other passengers.
The Boeing 737-700 jet was carrying 143 passengers and five crew members aboard and was traveling from New York to Dallas when the plane made its emergency landing in Philadelphia.
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Fox 29 reports that ten people were injured including one passenger that was sent to the hospital in critical condition with head trauma.
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Woman "partially sucked" out of a Southwest plane after engine explodes https://t.co/GsF93JlhQP pic.twitter.com/6ENMhgBDUh
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 17, 2018
UPDATE: One dead after Southwest jet makes emergency landing https://t.co/9ktkhJHKlz pic.twitter.com/pe0w1lii0n
— The Hill (@thehill) April 17, 2018
Tammie Jo Shults, pictured left, was the pilot of Southwest Flight 1380 when an engine failed mid-air. She is being hailed as a hero for safely landing the plane. Shults previously was a Navy fighter pilot who was one of the first women to fly F-18s: https://t.co/Dz6qCMtZZ8 pic.twitter.com/TxwyspJq5J
— Tom Cleary (@tomwcleary) April 17, 2018
"We have a part of the aircraft missing": Listen to the dramatic communications between the pilot of Southwest flight 1380 and air traffic control as plane from NYC comes into Philadelphia for emergency landing https://t.co/CgWfJH1DhY pic.twitter.com/QKmWOXNJ0r
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) April 17, 2018
Hero, full stop. @SouthwestAir Pilot Tammie Jo Shults, 1 of the Navy's 1st female fighter pilots & 1st to fly an F/A-18, kept her cool, safely landing the Boeing 737. Terrible to lose 1 life, but could have been far, far worse. https://t.co/4C4fgaShZW
— Jennifer Waisath Harris (@jwharris) April 18, 2018
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