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As a Southwest Airlines jet hurtled 32,000 feet over suburban Philadelphia, a rare engine explosion caused a passenger’s window to burst, partially pulling the woman sitting next to the opening out of the plane.
Fellow passengers frantically worked to yank her back inside the airliner as it depressurized and quickly descended thousands of feet per minute, according to several passengers.
The frightening ordeal played out Tuesday morning onboard Southwest flight 1380 as it headed for Dallas. The Boeing 737-700 was about 20 minutes into its journey from New York’s LaGuardia Airport when the engine failure occurred. The plane, carrying 144 passengers and five crew, diverted to Philadelphia International Airport where it made an emergency landing at 11:20 a.m.
Passengers described hearing a loud explosion from the left engine — one of two onboard — before debris peppered the fuselage and shattered that window.
"The plane dropped immediately," said Matt Tranchin, who was sitting three rows behind the broken window. "Plane smelled like smoke. Ash was all around us."
The woman, identified as Jennifer Riordan of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was pulled out of the plane up to her waist — her blood splattering other windows, passengers said.
"You hear the pop and she was sucked out from the waist up," one passenger told NBC Nightly News. "There was blood on the windows...her arms were actually out of the airplane and her head was out of the airplane."
Eric Zilbert, another passenger, said "several heroic gentlemen" pulled Riordan back into the plane and immediately performed CPR. Tranchin said she was covered in blood.
Another woman also told Nightly News she and another passenger performed about 20 minutes of CPR on the victim.
"It just wasn't going to be enough," the woman said.
wow RIP
southwest is one of my favourite regional airlines...this is their first fatality
i guess windows seats will be left open for the next 4-6 weeks.
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I always pick aisle seats when I fly because I don't want to bother people when I go to the washroom. I guess it's kind of weird/nice to know my preference could one day save my life.
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yeah saw that video
instead of a goodbye message he was live streaming on Facebook...priorities
and i always assumed the windows are too small for you to get ejected...guess I was wrong
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i guess windows seats will be left open for the next 4-6 weeks.
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I always pick aisle seats when I fly because I don't want to bother people when I go to the washroom. I guess it's kind of weird/nice to know my preference could one day save my life.
or just keep your seatbelt on
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Yikes.
Yet another reason to keep your seatbelt on snug.
That would have had to be a big chunk of debris to take out the window.
I remember one of the first Mythbusters episodes dealing with decompression on a plane.
A small hole wouldn't have done this. The whole window would have been blown out right from the start.
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They're probably gone too. I've always been one to keep the seatbelt on all the time, not loose but relatively snug. I would estimate less than half of passengers wear the seatbelt all the time. If you've ever been in a plane that suddenly drops a couple of feet when turbulence starts, you hear how fast everyone buckles up.
This makes me wonder how snug the seat belt would have to be to avoid getting sucked out (say, from the window seat). Remember that it is only a lap belt, so theoretically, your body can still kind of slide out if the angle is right?
I always belt up when I'm in a plane, but I only do so somewhat loosely since it get too uncomfortable to snugly belt myself in. Pretty sure I'd get completely sucked through the window if I were there at the window seat...
I always keep my seat belt on when I fly. It doesn't really bother me, although it's not super snug, but it's good for sudden turbulence if the plane drops.
It's kind of hard to imagine you being sucked completely through the seat belt given the angle of your legs. But either way you'll probably smash your head so hard into the wall or window or whatever, chances of survival is unlikely.
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On a somewhat related note, I saw this article pop up regarding the use of oxygen masks. It mentioned that most people on the flight were using the mask incorrectly. Makes for a good reminder for everyone to pay attention to the safety briefing on the plane.
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