One dead, woman almost sucked out of a plane window after engine exploded at 32,000ft (Photos)
According to the National Transport Safety Bureau Chairman, Robert Sumwalt
one person is dead after an engine exploded on a Southwest Airlines
flight today, sending a piece of shrapnel flying back into a window
which caused the woman sitting next to it to be nearly sucked out of the
aircraft.
The injured woman has since been taken to the hospital immediately
after the flight from New York to Dallas made an emergency landing at
Philadelphia International Airport at 11.27am.
There were unconfirmed reports from other passengers that someone
else suffered a heart attack on the plane and died. Twelve others were
assessed and seven of them had minor injuries.
The Boeing 737-700 was traveling at 32,500ft when the engine on the
left side of the plane exploded. Passengers said they heard a loud
'boom' and the plane immediately dropped adding that the woman sitting
next to the smashed window was drawn towards it and others next to her
held her down for 12 minutes until the plane landed.
See photos from the event below...
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