While the passengers were not injured in the incident, one of them was One person died there.

not at all guess you can’t for some reason.

The Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 aircraft took off from New York to Dallas.

on the plane There were 143 passengers and 5 crew members. It is stated that there was no problem during the flight, but suddenly an explosion occurred in the plane. Eyewitnesses said an explosion on the left side of the plane caused a major accident.

About 1 hour after take-off, at an altitude of 9,144 meters, the plane takes off engine It had exploded. As a result of this explosion, engine parts hit the fuselage of the aircraft and broke a window. Jennifer Riordan, who sat next to this window, did not know she was the victim of a disaster that would be talked about for years to come.

The cabin pressure had dropped.

From the glass that broke in the heat of the incident from Riordan His body was literally pulled out by the pressure difference. If the other passengers had managed to pull the woman back by holding her legs, things would not have gone as happily as expected.

Despite the interventions, the young woman stayed of the coup and died there due to shock. After the explosion, the plane made a safe landing at Philadelphia Airport, although it was severely damaged.

So what caused the explosion?

As a result of the investigation, the explosion on the engine fan blade It was determined that it was caused by a crack. The cause of this crack was “metal fatigue”. Not being noticed during essential maintenance cost a woman her life.

After this incident US Federal Aviation Administrationmandatory inspection of aircraft engines. The incident thus wrote its name in aviation history.

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