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144 passengers were aboard Southwest Airlines flight 1380 on April 17, 2018. The flight was scheduled to travel from LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York to Dallas Love Field in Dallas, Texas as part of a multi-stop flight ending in San Francisco. Multiple reports of the passengers perspective have been printed, broadcasted, or appeared online.

The flight sustained an engine failure as well as damage to one window. One passenger on the flight died.

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Further information: Southwest Airlines Flight 1380

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Engine debris reportedly struck the aircraft fuselage, causing one window to crack and fail due to the pressure difference between the cabin and atmosphere at high altitude. ---

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/passenger-next-woman-sucked-southwest-021020561.html

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Just as Hollie Mackey was about to get up from her seat to go to the bathroom during Tuesday morning’s Southwest Airlines flight from New York to Dallas, flight attendants asked passengers to stay seated due to continual turbulence. Mackey put her seatbelt back on, shared a glance of disappointment about the bumpy ride ahead with the woman seated at the window to her left and settled back in. Moments later, the unthinkable happened.

Mackey, 42, was seated in the aisle seat on the same row as Jennifer Riordan, a mother of two and bank executive from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who was killed when Flight 1380’s left side engine exploded just 20 minutes into their trip. When debris from the explosion blew out the window next to her, it caused Riordan to be partially sucked out of the aircraft through the gaping hole where the window used to be. Mackey and a teen girl sitting between them immediately came to her aid.

“I grabbed onto Jennifer’s belt loop area and wrapped my arm around her waist, and tried to pull her in. The little girl did, too,” Mackey, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma, tells PEOPLE. As the damaged plane traveled hundreds of miles an hour, thousands of feet in the sky, Mackey and the teen held onto Riordan as the cold air and the deafening sound of the aircraft engulfed them.

“It was really loud, you couldn’t hear. We tried yelling for help, we tried, but you couldn’t hear anything,” she says.

As hard as they tried, Mackey and the young girl couldn’t pull Riordan back inside.

“It was more of a helpless feeling than anything else,” Mackey says. “With the altitude and that air pressure at that time, we were not physically able to move her at all… the air pressure was still too much.”

Riordan was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the explosion, and Mackey believes it is what kept the 43-year-old from being pulled out of the plane completely. Mackey says she, too, felt the force of the suction drawing her to the window.

“We were feeling it pulling us a little bit. It wasn’t strong enough to pull us out, I don’t believe,” Mackey says. “But I wasn’t certain it wasn’t strong enough to pull the girl out if I unbuckled her and tried to move her out of the way.”

“The seatbelt is what held her inside,” she says of Riordan.

Throughout the ordeal, Mackey says she kept her thoughts on helping those around her, and not on what could happen if the plane went down.

“It momentarily crossed my mind it could crash,” she says. “Then I thought, ‘Well, I can’t do anything about that, so I might as well focus on what I can do something about and hope for the best.’ ”

As the aircraft continued its descent to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia, two Texas firefighters who were also passengers helped pull an unconscious Riordan from the window. She was then given CPR by retired nurse Peggy Phillips for almost 20 minutes until the plane touched the ground.

The NTSB believes metal fatigue on the 18-year-old Boeing 737—piloted by hero pilot, Tammie Jo Shults—led to one of the engine’s blade breaking mid-flight, sending shrapnel into the plane’s fuselage and breaking the window next to Riordan.

On Wednesday, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health announced Riordan’s death was caused by blunt impact trauma to her head, neck and torso. Riordan’s family announced Thursday the founding of a memorial website, The Jennifer Riordan Memorial Trust, where givers can support causes that were important to Riordan and help the family meet financial needs after the traumatic event.

“We appreciate the outpouring of support for our family and the love for Jennifer,” the statement, provided to PEOPLE, states. “Hearing stories of how she impacted everyone in so many meaningful ways has truly touched our hearts. To honor her legacy, an official memorial site has been created to fund causes that were near and dear to her heart.”

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According to witnesses, the explosive blast of air exiting the failed window drew the upper portion of the torso of passenger Jennifer Riordan, who was sitting adjacent to it, outside the fuselage. Other passengers pulled her back into the cabin and unsuccessfully attempted to plug the window with clothing and other items, which were drawn outside. Riordan, a Wells Fargo Bank vice president from Albuquerque, New Mexico, died in the hospital later that day.

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good article  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/us/southwest-plane-engine-failure.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/southwest-airlines-flight-1380-passengers-speak-out-jet-engine-explosion/

A man in a cowboy hat, rancher Tim McGinty of Hillsboro, Texas, tore his mask off and struggled to pull the woman in.

"It seemed like two minutes and it seemed like two hours," McGinty told reporters, a bandage on an arm he scraped while trying to save the woman. Andrew Needum, a firefighter from Celina, Texas, came to help, and the two of them managed to drag her back inside.

Jennifer Riordan, a 43-year-old Wells Fargo bank executive and mother of two from Albuquerque, New Mexico, didn't survive.

At a press conference Thursday in Celina, Needum, a father of two, said, "God told me to move," so he acted. Needum said he had just helped a young woman with an infant in her lap put on their masks when he heard some commotion behind him and he looked across the aisle at his wife Stephanie.

"I looked at her eyes, and she basically gave me the approval to go back there," Andrew Needum said. "In fact, I think she may have told me to go ... and what took place back there I'm going to leave out of respect for [Riordan's] family. I'm going to leave that alone, but I never was in fear of my life. I'm sure my family could speak otherwise, but I'm trained for emergency situations, and that's just exactly what it was."

Stephanie Needum said she was proud of her husba On the plane, when a flight attendant asked if anyone knew CPR, retired school nurse Peggy Phillips got out of her seatbelt, and she and the firefighter laid the grievously injured woman down. The two of them began administering CPR for about 20 minutes, until the plane landed.

"If you can possibly imagine going through the window of an airplane at about 600 mph and hitting either the fuselage or the wing with your body, with your face, then I think I can probably tell you there was significant trauma," Phillips told ABC.

The Philadelphia medical examiner said Riordan died of blunt impact trauma of the head, neck and torso.

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Peggy Phillips, a retired nurse, and another passenger, Tim McGunty who is an emergency medical technician, began conducting CPR on the passenger who was pulled back into the cabin after being partly ejected out of the window, assisted by a passenger firefighter, who carried the wounded passenger onto the floor. CPR was continued for 20 minutes until landing. Multiple news organizations report large quantities of blood in the cabin and a pool of blood was discovered as the victim was taken away, attributed to shrapnel injuries. Blood was later found sprayed even outside the fuselage. The fire commissioner in Philadelphia, Adam Thiel, cited passengers for heroism, noting "Passengers did “some pretty amazing things under some pretty difficult circumstances,”

chaos

News reports described chaos in the cabin, with passengers attempting to make social-media posts as the event unfolded.

According to statements by passengers of the flight, as reported in news stories on the accident, the passenger in the seat next to the failed window was partially ejected or "sucked out" of the cabin by the explosive decompression. Multiple news organizations report bloody conditions in the cabin. News reports also described chaos and screaming in the passenger cabin, with passengers attempting to post live social media updates as the events unfolded. In addition to that victim, seven others were injured and treated on the tarmac but not hospitalized.Other passengers pulled the victim back into the cabin, and attempted to plug the hole in the fuselage where the window used to be using jackets and other items. This was not successful and these items were blown out of the aircraft. The victim next to the failed window was critically injured and died shortly thereafter. In addition to that victim, seven others were injured and treated on the tarmac but not hospitalized.

oxygen masks and no evacuation

Passenger photographs taken during the emergency showed that many passengers did not follow procedures how to wear an oxygen mask correctly, that is, covering both the mouth and nose, despite the mandatory pre-flight instructions demonstrated by the crew.

</ref> After landing, no emergency slides were deployed but the passengers deplaned by mobile stairs and taken by bus to the terminal.

captain thanked

Captain Shults was hailed as a hero by multiple passengers and the press.

corporate aftermath

All corporate executives were attending a day long leadership development meeting at a Dallas hotel when simultaneous phone calls. Airline's operations center conference call and emergency response plan implemented. Previously used in the past year with 3 hurricanes, Las Vegas shooting, Sutherland Springs shooting.

phtos and tweets kept airline informed and need for quick response

"quickly" released Kelly apology

Go Team to PHL for travel arrangements and even counseling. Plane sent to PHL.

Close to 90 took chartered flight to DAL that evening. More than 50 stayed overnight. Letters under their hotel doors to remind them of on site Southwest personnel.

Day 2 personal phone calls and email, $5000+$1000 NSA and weren't part of an effort to dissuade passengers from suing (separate effort?)

US Airways experience one amount and $5000 covers the highest expense from cancellation fees of other travel arrangements.

(Other source: American miles negative reaction)

last time accident resopnse plan was in 2005 (so must have separate accident response plan), airline has social medical listennig team and input fed to executives as accident news developed.

Ten Minutes AFter Disaster Struck, WSJ, 4/25/2018 A9online

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Peggy Phillips, a retired nurse, and Tim McGunty, an emergency medical technician, began CPR on Riordan. The CPR was continued for 20 minutes until landing. It was later reported that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, neck, and torso.

Seven others were also injured. They were treated at the airport, but not hospitalized.