Tuesday morning passengers boarded Southwest flight 1380 from LaGuardia Airport to Dallas Love Field that's where Southwest Airlines is based the departure was set for 10:30 a.m. the Boeing 737-700 version carried 144 passengers and five crew that's a full complement by the way that's as full as that plane gets and it prepared to depart for Dallas Love Field as the plane lifted off passengers settled in for the trip they expected it to last just over four hours it's a routine run for the airline it's taken by hundreds of passengers if not thousands every week flight tracking data shows the plane taking off heading over eastern Pennsylvania climbing to an altitude of just over 32,000 feet when about 20 minutes into the trip every passenger and the pilots worst nightmare happened there was an explosion when the engine winds and so I hear this noise and everything shakes up and I look outside and it's totally broken apart folded back on itself the mass came down and before putting on their masks and basically I think all of us thought this might be it there was so much commotion from the passengers at that from then on kind of thought that that was it take a look at this picture as the plane was in the air the left engine exploded when one of the engines 24 fan blades ripped free the plane quickly descended 15,000 feet in a very short amount of time this is what the engine looked like when it was on the ground you do not have to be an aviation enthusiast like me to know that no engine should ever look like that a piece of engine cover found 70 miles away in Bernville Pennsylvania but in the moments after the explosion the passengers had no way of knowing what was going on you'd heard it described that the oxygen masks fell from the ceiling then even more horror and then all of a sudden and there was a really big commotion about four rows back behind me was a lot of chaos back there lots of really upset people and a lot of noise and a big rush of air you hear the pop and she was sucked out from the waist up up there was blood on the windows was because of their body and her arms were actually out of the airplane and her head was out of their plane there's a panic was the window broke and she was out of the window everyone kind of rushed in to pull er back into the plane when we saw the window was gone somebody saw the lady out the window so just firemen from Celina Texas jumped in there and health in between the two of us were able to get her back in Wow Jennifer Reardon this woman a Wells Fargo employee from Albuquerque New Mexico a mother of two violently ripped from her seat after passengers
