What happened on board the Boeing 737-700 airliner of Southwest Airlines could well have become a plot of the catastrophe, but no one would have survived such a wake-up and the enemy. The 144-passenger aircraft and 5 crew members from New York to Dallas made an emergency landing in Philadelphia. One passenger died, another seven were injured. However, things could be even worse.

The liner gained altitude of 10 thousand meters, when suddenly there was an explosion of the left engine. The wreckage flew in different directions. One of them broke the porthole behind the wing. Behind the broken porthole sat 43-year-old Jennifer Ryodam, mother of two children. She was returning from a business trip. Everything happened instantly: after a loud clap the porthole scattered, air began to rapidly escape from the passenger compartment, oxygen masks fell from the ceiling to the passengers. Panic began in the salon. The whole liner was shaking. The wounded Jennifer, sitting near the broken window, half sucked in the opening. She was above the waist outside the plane. The men who were nearby, rushed to the aid and dragged the woman into the salon. The plane was on a decline. In the salon, attempts were made to bring the victim back to life, but they were in vain. She died, as they will say later, from a blow from a fragment of an exploding engine. Seven more passengers were injured.

As experts say, this is the first case with a fatal outcome for the entire 51-year history of Southwest. This airline is the largest air carrier using only Boeing-737 airplanes. It is known about a similar incident that occurred in 1966 with a Delta plane. Then two people were killed. In 2016 there was a destruction of the engine from the Southwest Airlines on the way from New Orleans to Orlando, but there were no casualties and injuries. Last autumn Airbus Boeing 737 Air France lost its engine, flying over Greenland while traveling from Paris to Los Angeles. Then at the plane there was a separation of a forward part of the right engine. Onboard there were 496 passengers and 24 crew members. The board made an emergency landing on three engines based on the Air Force of Canada.

It is already known that in the last accident the engine lost one compressor blade. There is a destruction of the slat and the leading edge of the wing.

Now the engine manufacturer Boeing-737 will undertake a full investigation, which will take 12 to 15 months. "This should not happen again and we want to find out why it happened," said Robert Samvault, representative of the National Council for Transport Security (NTSB).