Posted on 04/17/2018 11:30:34 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Woman passenger is almost sucked out of a plane window after Southwest Airlines engine explodes and sends shrapnel into the glass before she is dragged back by passengers on flight of terror
A female passenger was partially sucked out the window of a Southwest Airlines plane and had to be pulled back inside after the aircraft was shattered by shrapnel from an exploding engine, it has been claimed.
The Boeing 737 had not long departed from LaGuardia Airport in New York City and was on its way to Dallas when the left engine exploded and shrapnel flew towards the window.
It was flying over western Pennsylvania with 143 passengers and five members of crew on board when the left engine suddenly exploded at 32,000ft.
The female pilot immediately diverted its course and flew towards Philadelphia to make an emergency landing. It arrived at 11.30am, around 10 minutes after the engine exploded.
According to other passengers on the plane, the shrapnel smashed a window next to a female passenger who was 'partially sucked through it' as the aircraft made its descent.
'One passenger, a woman, was partially drawn out towards the out of the plane, she was pulled back in by other passengers,' Todd Bauer, the father of another passenger on board, told NBC 10.
The woman was taken to hospital and the extent of her injuries is not known. A nurse and an EMT who were also passengers helped her until the plane landed and she was taken to hospital, they said.
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I found that odd also. WTH does gender have to do with it? Now if IT were a Tranny, that would be a story!
That’s sad.
In the US for January, passenger aircraft flew about 7.5 billion miles, translating to over one trillion seat miles. There’s hardly ever a mishap anymore.
https://www.transtats.bts.gov/TRAFFIC/
Our local news in Pittsburgh is reporting the woman has passed away, sadly. How awful. RIP
They were wrong. It can happen.
I agree that passenger safety on commercial aircraft in our country is truly remarkable. That said, did you see the 60 Minutes segment on Allegiant Airlines? Yikes!
Reporting now one death......
At least one FReeper likes Allegiant’s seats.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3630462/posts?page=9#9
I found the 60 Minutes report online and am watching it now. Did they mention that Allegiant is still several times safer than driving your car?
She just won the lottery.
“there’s a group of freepers with peanut sized brains, and other, I suppose, who take every accident, incident, failure etc by a female whatever as evidence of male superiority in all things.”
Typical female comment trying to cover for another female pilot who blew up an airplane engine. Had that pilot not overtorqued the enfabulator on the clearly marked 737 fly by wire override panel she would never have lost the engine.
That Aloha Airlines incident is the reason airlines suggest you keep your seatbelt on even at cruising altitude.
there was one confirmed death.
Um I guess she died. Some lottery.
There are these things called seat belts. They are highly recommended at all time while flying.
“There is no ‘suck’ in real life.”
Maybe not in your life.
How terribly sad and traumatic.
Prayers for the family/loved ones, of the victim, and to all who witnessed this horrific scene.
I wonder if the seat belt ripped out.
She may have died from shrapnel.
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