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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Why weren't we given her race and age as well (/sarcasm)
Wow. Count the “female” and “woman” uses in this article.
I thought we were all the same!
“30,000 feet in the air, engine exploded, open window to the atmosphere, breathing through an oxygen mask...still not so serious a situation that I can’t take a selfie”
All joking aside, I fly SWA a lot. I Probably would have handled the situation OK, but my wife ... not so much. I wonder if they applauded when the plane landed, like in ‘Airplane’.
Personal policy - never sit on seat assignments that are in the plane of of the engine’s turbine blades
Wasn’t this type of thing, being sucked out of airplanes, debunked by Mythbusters?
I have never flown so never considered the science behind it.
. Why me tion if the pilot is mail or female?
so mentioning the "female" pilot saving the plane and the passengers is just fair play....good for her....
“Wasn’t this type of thing, being sucked out of airplanes, debunked by Mythbusters?”
I know the b.s. about a bullet hole causing explosive decompression is propaganda, but being pulled out by the jet-speed slipstream through a hole the size of a window might be possible.
“never sit on seat assignments that are in the plane of of the engine’s turbine blades“
The engine is in front of the wing. The window that was knocked out was almost to the rear of the wing. Not in line with the anticipate fan blade sling zone. Side view showing. Loan engine and fuselage did not show blown window. It was mid wing root on fuselage, approximately one of the exit row seats.
Nope. It’s sexist.
Can’t have it both ways, “honey”.
technically, the pressure inside the plane was PUSHING her out the window. There is no ‘suck’ in real life.
once the plane’s internal atmosphere equaled the outside, then there was no push out the window.
Accidents happen!..on land, sea and air.
see my prior post. it’s all push.
#highschoolphysics
Just heard that the passenger has passed away..condolences to her family
Scary!
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