Passenger nearly gets sucked out of broken Southwest Airlines 737 window
A Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 took off from LaGuardia Airport at 10:27am and landed in Philadelphia about 11:23am. The Boeing 737 was heading to Dallas with 144 passengers and five crew members. For the first 20 minutes, everything seemed calm. Then “a loud boom” suddenly jolted the plane according to passenger Marty Martinez.
In what appears to be a turbine blade failure, part of the left engine of the plane smashed through a window in the centre, left hand side of the plane, causing a massive pressure loss. A passenger was almost sucked out of the window and, despite desperate efforts from fellow passengers, died as a result of the incident.
Flightradar24 estimates the plane dropped from 31,684 feet to 10,000 feet in about five minutes.
CNN has the full story HERE.
