NTSB looks into engine failure of airline jet
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The National Transportation Safety Board yesterday inspected the wrecked engine of a Southwest Airlines Co jet that blew up in mid air, killing a passenger in the first deadly US commercial airline accident in nine years.
NTSB officials retrieved the flight data recorder from the Boeing 737-700, which will be sent to Washington for review, as airlines around the world stepped up inspection of engines on that model of aircraft.
Southwest Flight 1380, which took off from New York for Dallas, Texas, with 144 passengers and five crew members aboard, made an emergency landing in Philadelphia on Tuesday after an engine on the plane ripped apart, killing bank executive Jennifer Riordan, 43.
It was the second incident involving a failure of the same sort of engine, the CFM56, made by a partnership of France’s Safran and General Electric, on a Southwest jet in the past two years.
The airline said it would inspect the fan blades of CFM56 engines on all of its 737 jets within 30 days.
Passengers described scenes of panic as a piece of shrapnel from the engine shattered a window on the aircraft, almost sucking a female passenger out.
“All I could think of in that moment was, I need to communicate with my loved ones,” passenger Marty Martinez told ABC’s Good Morning America yesterday. During the incident, he logged on to the plane’s in-flight WiFi service to send messages to his family.
“I thought, these are my last few moments on Earth and I want people to know what happened,” Martinez said.
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