Southwest Airlines engine failure: What we know and don’t know
By Staff One woman has died and several others were injured after an engine on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 failed in flight Tuesday, forcing the crew to make an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport. Here’s a breakdown of what we know and what we don’t just a day after the fatal incident.What We Know - The Southwest flight took off from New York’s LaGuardia Airport bound for Love Field in Dallas around 10:45 a.m., carrying 144 passengers and five crew members. - The plane landed safely at PHL at 11:23 a.m. where emergency crews attended to a fuel leak and a small fire in the engine. The NTSB’s investigation will look at metal fatigue and a fan blade that broke off from one of the plane’s engines, Robert Sumwalt, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.
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