Southwest flight 1380 makes emergency landing in Philadelphia after engine failure

[Puffnstuff]

Normally I wouldn't post this as engine issues are a common problem forcing the aircraft to land without incident. However, today southwest flight 1380 from LaGuardia experienced an engine failure that managed to penetrate the cabin injuring a passenger seated in aisle 17 that later died at the hospital. Passengers said that she was being sucked into the missing window space as other passengers futilely tried to plug the hole.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/southwest-flight-emergency/index.html

 

[Puffnstuff]

Here's some footage from inside the cabin during the inflight emergency.

Here's an explanation of the problem.

 

[Svnla]

I saw that story earlier today at lunch. Now I am a bit leery because I always pick window seat while I travel by airplane. It would not be good if this happened in the ocean (trans Pacific/Atlantic flights). Goodness.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

I saw that story earlier today at lunch. Now I am a bit leery because I always pick window seat while I travel by airplane. Goodness.

Just don't sit perpendicular to one of the engines and you should be relatively safe.

 

[Indus]

The engine blew at 32500 feet and shattered the window. At that altitude its a miracle the plane didn't break up due to rapid decompression.

Great job by the pilots guiding it back to the ground and saving almost everyone.

 

[sdifox]

yikes. Good job flight crew on getting it back on the ground safely.

Edit heard the recording. The pilot was cool as a cucumber.

 

[ElFenix]

pilot was really calm, very pro:

https://heavy.com/news/2018/04/tammie-jo-shults-pilot-southwest-flight-1380-engine-hero/

 

[BUTCH1]

These engines spin at great speed and supposedly the cowling would stop projectiles from hitting the fuselage, it's far from foolproof it seems.

 

[bshole]

Here's some footage from inside the cabin during the inflight emergency.

Here's an explanation of the problem.

OMIGOD..... I.... AM....... A...... HERO!!!!!!!!! Do you see those two yellow fire trucks by the jet? They are running on 100% BSHOLE software! I wrote dat software around 2000 and have only had to mod it slightly since then (for expanded capability). Pump and roll software is cool as hell... In case you are interested, the controllers were using the Infineon C167 micro. It was the first project that I ever worked on that involved the CAN bus. I am now working with ARM micros which I prefer so far.

 

[Thebobo]

Interesting.

The death of one person on Southwest Airlines flight 1380 is the first accident-related fatality on a US passenger airline since February 2009.

 

[Brainonska511]

Interesting.

The death of one person on Southwest Airlines flight 1380 is the first accident-related fatality on a US passenger airline since February 2009.

Reminds me of this: https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...e-crash-last-year-trump-wants-credit.2532600/

 

[UNCjigga]

Interesting.

The death of one person on Southwest Airlines flight 1380 is the first accident-related fatality on a US passenger airline since February 2009.

Isn't this also the first death sure to airliner malfunction/crash on Southwest period?

 

[JSt0rm]

pilot was really calm, very pro:

https://heavy.com/news/2018/04/tammie-jo-shults-pilot-southwest-flight-1380-engine-hero/

did she say someone was sucked out?

 

[Puffnstuff]

did she say someone was sucked out?

She was injured by the vacuum of the breach as it tried to suck her out along with the shrapnel from the engine. Passenger accounts state that she was covered in blood.

 

[BUTCH1]

pilot was really calm, very pro:

https://heavy.com/news/2018/04/tammie-jo-shults-pilot-southwest-flight-1380-engine-hero/

Hell, the pilot seems 10X as calm as the controllers on the ground. In any event, they were sorta lucky in that none of that flying shrapnel disabled any of the hydraulics and they had control throughout it seems.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Even more information now as passengers had to pull the fatality, Jennifer Riordan, back into the aircraft after she hung outside the window for several minutes until enough people could pull her back inside the aircraft and place her back in her seat. A nurse performed CPR on her once she was back inside.

I can only imagine what the shock of being hit by shrapnel followed by the shock of striking the window frame did to her body followed by a prolonged period of low oxygen and freezing temperatures. She is survived by her husband and two children.

http://www.koat.com/article/albuque...er-flight-experiences-engine-failure/19844383

 

[Linux23]

Even more information now as passengers had to pull the fatality, Jennifer Riordan, back into the aircraft after she hung outside the window for several minutes until enough people could pull her back inside the aircraft and place her back in her seat. A nurse performed CPR on her once she was back inside.

I can only imagine what the shock of being hit by shrapnel followed by the shock of striking the window frame did to her body followed by a prolonged period of low oxygen and freezing temperatures. She is survived by her husband and two children.

http://www.koat.com/article/albuque...er-flight-experiences-engine-failure/19844383

oh god that is terrible.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Isn't this also the first death sure to airliner malfunction/crash on Southwest period?

Depends how you look at it. One went off the runway in a snow storm and crashed into traffic killing a 6 year old. The only other death was a guy who was restrained after trying to storm the cockpit and died of asphyxiation.

 

[Exterous]

I saw that story earlier today at lunch. Now I am a bit leery because I always pick window seat while I travel by airplane. It would not be good if this happened in the ocean (trans Pacific/Atlantic flights). Goodness.

It's pretty rare so you're still more likely to die on the way to the airport than from the flight itself. There seem to be mixed reports so far on exactly what happened to the poor woman but I wonder if she was wearing her seatbelt or not. I always keep mine on due to the turbulence injuries and this so I'm curious to know if that would have mattered or not.

Mr. Martinez, the digital agency owner, said that amid the mayhem he bought Wi-Fi service so he could reach out to loved ones. He struggled to keep his focus, entering his credit card information digit by digit.

I guess thats one way to sell inflight wifi...

 

[bshole]

Hell, the pilot seems 10X as calm as the controllers on the ground. In any event, they were sorta lucky in that none of that flying shrapnel disabled any of the hydraulics and they had control throughout it seems.

Yep. A lot of times it does and that tends to make everybody dead. I think they have like three redundant lines.

 

[DrunkenSano]

I saw that story earlier today at lunch. Now I am a bit leery because I always pick window seat while I travel by airplane. It would not be good if this happened in the ocean (trans Pacific/Atlantic flights). Goodness.

It is also a reason why you should have your seatbelt on at all times even without turbulence unless you are moving about the cabin.

 

[deathBOB]

Hell, the pilot seems 10X as calm as the controllers on the ground. In any event, they were sorta lucky in that none of that flying shrapnel disabled any of the hydraulics and they had control throughout it seems.

Cool story about her in WP: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...flight-and-broke-barriers-as-a-fighter-pilot/

One of the first female fighter pilots.

 

[UNCjigga]

Depends how you look at it. One went off the runway in a snow storm and crashed into traffic killing a 6 year old. The only other death was a guy who was restrained after trying to storm the cockpit and died of asphyxiation.

I thought the runway overshoot killed someone on the ground though, not inside the plane.

 

[Puffnstuff]

It is also a reason why you should have your seatbelt on at all times even without turbulence unless you are moving about the cabin.

I agree that they should be worn as a precautionary measure considering that we are required to wear them while driving our cars because accidents don't announce themselves beforehand. I can only imagine what those people felt and the struggle they went through to keep her body from leaving the cabin.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

I thought the runway overshoot killed someone on the ground though, not inside the plane.

That's why I said it depends how you look at it. It's still a crash/incident resulting in a death. Just wasn't someone on board.