An American Southwest took off 20 minutes after the engine explosion! Half of the body of a female passenger has even been sucked out of the window, causing two deaths and seven injuries!
On April 17, local time, the flight, Flight 1380, was a Boeing 737-700 from La Guardia Airport in New York to Dallas. The plane was carrying 143 passengers and five crew members at the time of departure at 10: 43 local time in New York. Only 20 minutes, however, when the plane was at an altitude of 32500 feet, the engine suddenly explosion!
According to passengers on board, the plane fell at an extreme speed and felt like it had fallen nearly 1000 feet!
The most terrifying thing happened: the engine on the left side of the fuselage suddenly explosion, fragments smashed the nearby window, sitting next to a female passenger was instantly sucked out of the window! Fortunately, the next passenger was quick-eyed and pulled back more than half of the female passengers hanging outside the fuselage! However, the suction by the window was so great that the passenger only held the female passenger dead, which lasted up to 12 minutes.
The scene was horrified, and the blood of the injured female passengers spilled all over the place. Someone tried to block the window, but a lot of things were sucked out of the window!
As the plane panicked, a passenger recalled hearing a loud explosion sound, and then the oxygen hood fell off his head, followed by a explosion.
The passenger even said: "I completely forgot the time, I began to think of my relatives and friends, I wanted to tell them that I love them, I only felt scared," the passenger said.
In such a dangerous situation, the aircraft chose to lower altitude and transfer to Philadelphia Airport. At that time, the plane had only one engine left.
Fortunately, after a dangerous and bumpy flight, the plane landed safely in Philadelphia after nearly 10 minutes of flight with the best skill of the pilot, relying on one of the remaining engines. The half-body passenger, who had been sucked out of the window, was rushed to the hospital, but died. Her identity, confirmed to be 43-year-old Jennifer Riordan, had two children, and the reason she took the plane at Albuquerque, this time was a business trip, but it was so tragic.
The accident caused a total of 2 deaths and 7 injuries, a total of 12 passengers were taken to hospital.
The official spokesman said that the Southwest Flight 1380 from La Guardia Airport in New York to Love Field in Dallas was diverted to Philadelphia Airport because of operational problems. The plane landed safely and the slide was not operational.
As for the specific reason why the engine suddenly explosion, Southwest Airlines, Boeing has joined the relevant government department to investigate.
This once again reminds us that it is not the first time that we have heard of the horror story of wearing a seat belt while flying, similar to a broken window of a plane, and sucking people out of the window, and we have not heard of it for the first time. We have reported the strange incident in which the captain of British Airways flew out of the window.
The greatest disaster in the history of British aviation
Birmingham International Airport, England, June 10, 1990. British Airways Flight 5390 is leaving Birmingham Airport for Spain on the same day. The passengers were looking forward to the journey, and no one knew what the next thriller would be.
Captain Lancaster and co-pilot Acheson chatted leisurely in the cockpit after the plane flew into the blue sky. In their view, a two-hour flight was nothing more than a day-to-day job.
In a relaxed state, the captain made a move that he regretted for decades: unfastening his seat belt.
After all, he has been flying for many years, and it is fine to unfasten his seat belt.
What he did not expect this time, however, was that he himself would experience a horrific death moment that no pilot could feel.
Half an hour after the plane took off, the captain suddenly discovered that his cabin was shaking! The source of the jitter is the windshield in front of us!
Before he had time to think about such strange phenomena, the most terrifying thing finally happened: the windshield of the plane flew out! The huge air pressure difference allowed the cabin air to leak sharply, the captain because he did not fasten the seat belt, was instantly sucked out of the window by the air!
Since his feet were stuck in the driver's wheel, he was not directly washed away by the air, except for his feet, most of which were naked outside the plane! One crew member, Oden, was quick-eyed and rushed to hold the captain's leg to protect him from being blown away.
Just as everyone was glad to hold the captain and not let him fly out completely, a terrible fact was discovered: the captain's leg was pressed on the driver's wheel and just started the plane's acceleration button, and the plane was speeding down! In other words, holding the captain now is like losing control of the plane! Hold the captain closely Oden is even more found that the captain not only cold whole body, eyes have not blinked completely, it seems there is no sign of life!
Auden and co-pilot Acheson did not speak at this time, but they knew the psychological activity of each other was the same as their own: do you want to let go? The captain may be dead. Throw him away and the plane will become easy to control in an instant. The life of a plane will also be guaranteed. But therefore, it is necessary to abandon the captain ruthlessly?
Finally co-pilot Acheson told Orden: you can't give up on him, you have to keep him. In hindsight, the decision was proved to be extremely accurate. Because at the time, if the pilot let go, the pilot would only hit the wing or get caught in the engine, and the plane would lose its maneuverability. To give up the captain is to give up the life of all the people on the plane.
The plane continued to swoop uncontrollably as it tried to keep the captain. Finally, with the efforts of two crew members, the captain's legs were removed from the winding driver's wheel, and they held the captain's legs tightly, never letting go.
At this point, all the pressure fell on co-pilot Acheson's head, the co-pilot on the plane, has always played an auxiliary role, similar to the weather inquiry, landing status and other matters. No one has ever instructed a co-pilot how to fly a plane. But only co-pilot Acheson was the one who could save 87 lives on the plane. He must contact the ground tower as soon as possible and land the plane to save everyone.
But then he discovered the more gloomy fact that though he could contact the tower, he could not hear the other party's answer because of the sound of the wind and the wind! Everything seems to have fallen into a state of despair.
Acheson called the tower over and over again, and all he heard was the sound of the wind. But he did not give up, while controlling the plane, while choosing to continue calling. Perhaps his perseverance touched heaven, after a while, he finally heard the voice of the tower staff. The man at the tower told him he could land at the nearby Southampton airport.
As soon as he finally saw the dawn of survival, fate seemed to joke on him: the plane needed a 25000-foot runway to land safely, while the airport runway in Southampton was only 18000 feet.
That means he has only two options: one to park at Southampton or to continue flying to his familiar Malaga airport.
Both options are a gamble, and if the flight to Malaga is no doubt a joke on the lives of passengers, the plane is already at the end of the crossfire; but if it stops at Southampton Airport, the whole plane will still be broken if something goes wrong.
Between the light flint, Acheson made his choice: close to Southampton! As a result, he began the most difficult and nervous landing in his life. Slow down, steady, control rhythm. All the people in the plane held their breath and watched the plane get closer and closer to the ground. The captain's body was constantly hit by the wind outside the plane's cabin on the side window. Inside, two crew members clung to the captain's leg tightly.
One minute, two minutes, 500 meters, 400 meters. The whole plane was quiet, only the whistling of the wind and the sound of the engine turning, as though it had been a long time ago, and the plane clanged. The landing gear came into contact with the ground and then bounced up. The landing gear landed again. Slide. The aircraft started the reverse thrust. Slow down, slide, slow down, slow down again.
Finally, he closed his eyes and parked the plane on the runway. Acheson finally closed his eyes, he finally safe, parked the plane on the airport apron. What he was worried about did not happen and the plane landed safely. There was warm applause, and all the passengers experienced the rest of their lives, while Acheson burst into tears. He was the only one who knew what a thrilling he had gone through.
However, frozen in a low temperature of-17 degrees below zero, and blown by a strong wind of more than 500 kilometers per hour, it struck the plane as a pendulum, and even the captain, who was thought to have died in the air by everyone, came back to life! He was taken to the hospital for half a year, but he returned to British Airways to continue to be captain after recovering. There are no psychological or physiological obstacles at all! The disaster in the sky was full of miracles from beginning to end.
The final investigation, the cause of all this culprit, is actually a screw! It was only because the repairman fixed the window with a screw smaller than prescribed that it caused such a tragedy.
Later, the story was filmed as a documentary.
After reading the story of today, it is really palpitating. Although we know that the safety factor of aircraft is very high, but when accidents occur, it is often a never-ending disaster. Therefore, or wish the friends who travel recently, can have a safe and happy journey.