Update: Identity of the woman who died when a Southwest plane engine exploded at 32,000ft revealed to be a 43-year old executive of Wells Fargo
43 year old Jennifer Riordan, a mother-of-two from
Albuquerque and a Wells Fargo executive has been identified as the woman
who died after she was almost sucked out of her Southwest Airlines
flight window following a midair explosion.
She (pictured above with her husband) was returning from a business
trip aboard the New York to Dallas flight when the plane's left engine
exploded sending shrapnel flying into a window next to her seat. The
banking executive was left hanging half outside the shattered window as
fellow passengers desperately scrambled to drag her back inside the
aircraft, which was carrying 149 people.
She was rushed to hospital immediately after hero pilot Tammie Jo
Shults took the plane into a sharp descent and made an emergency landing
at Philadelphia International Airport at 11.27am.
Authorities confirm that she later died while seven other people were injured.
Those on board said they heard a loud 'boom' and the Boeing 737-700
immediately dropped, they said, by what felt like 100ft. Oxygen masks
dropped from the ceiling and passengers said their prayers and braced
for impact.
The National Transportation Safety Board has said a preliminary
examination of the blown jet engine shows evidence of 'metal fatigue.'
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