CFM said in a statement that the CFM56-7B has had "an outstanding safety and reliability record" since its debut in 1997, powering more than 6,700 aircraft worldwide. The jet's CFM56-7B engines were made by CFM International, jointly owned by General Electric and Safran Aircraft Engines of France. Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said in Dallas that there were no problems with the plane or its engine when it was inspected Sunday. The 737 is the best-selling jetliner in the world and has a good safety record. It is the world's largest operator of the 737. Southwest has about 700 planes, all of them 737s, including more than 500 737-700s like the one in Tuesday's accident. airliner was 2009, when 49 people on board and one on the ground were killed when a Continental Express plane crashed on a house near Buffalo, New York. The last time a passenger died in an accident on a U.S. I didn't have any fearing that it was out of control." "The plane was steady as a rock after it happened. "We were very lucky to have such a skilled pilot and crew to see us through it," Zilbert said. Passengers did "some pretty amazing things under some pretty difficult circumstances," Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel said.Īs the plane came in for a landing, everyone started yelling to brace for impact, then clapped after the aircraft touched down safely, Bourman said. Passengers struggled to plug the hole somehow while giving the badly injured woman CPR. He couldn't do it by himself so another gentleman came over and helped to get her back in the plane and they got her."Īnother passenger, Eric Zilbert, an administrator with the California Education Department, said: "From her waist above, she was outside of the plane." Tumlinson said a man in a cowboy hat rushed forward a few rows "to grab that lady to pull her back in. In a recording of conversations between the cockpit and air traffic controllers, an unidentified crew member reported that there was a hole in the plane and that "someone went out." "You had a few passengers that were very strong, and they kept yelling to people, you know, 'It's OK! We're going to do this!'"
"Everybody was crying and upset," she said. She said the plane was fairly quiet because everyone was wearing a mask. Tracking data from showed Flight 1380 was heading west over Pennsylvania at about 32,200 feet (10 km) and traveling 500 mph (800 kph) when it abruptly turned toward Philadelphia.īourman said she was asleep near the back when she heard a loud noise and oxygen masks dropped. "I'm going to send her a Christmas card, I'm going to tell you that, with a gift certificate for getting me on the ground. That lady, I applaud her," said Alfred Tumlinson, of Corpus Christi, Texas. She walked through the aisle and talked with passengers to make sure they were OK after the plane touched down. Passengers commended one of the pilots for her cool-headed handling of the emergency. Photos of the plane on the tarmac showed a missing window and a chunk gone from the left engine, including part of its cover. Sumwalt said the engine will be taken apart and examined to understand what caused the failure.
It was the first passenger fatality in an accident involving a U.S. He gave no details, but the woman who nearly got sucked out was the only one seriously injured and was taken off the plane by emergency workers. National Transportation Safety Board chairman Robert Sumwalt said one person died.
"And the thoughts that were going through my head of course were about my daughters, just wanting to see them again and give them a big hug so they wouldn't grow up without parents." "I just remember holding my husband's hand, and we just prayed and prayed and prayed," said passenger Amanda Bourman, of New York.
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