"All of a sudden, we hear an explosion and come to find out that the engine exploded on the left side of the plane," claims Marty Martinez, the Southwest passenger that live-streamed flight making an emergency landing http://cbsn.ws/2H69wfk pic.twitter.com/8lJAuc0Qdr
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"We were probably going down for 10 or 15 minutes. And of course, everyone is freaking out, everyone is crying. It was the scariest experience," passenger Marty Martinez says on emergency landing on Southwest flight https://cbsn.ws/2H6Prtt pic.twitter.com/C3GF62Cg8Y
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"The flight attendant confirmed that the engine blew out and when we landed, there were no hydraulics," Southwest passenger Marty Martinez claims. "So I guess the pilot landed manually." https://cbsn.ws/2H6Prtt pic.twitter.com/R42Bo0vEMa
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"We are in the process of transporting customers and crew into the terminal. The aircraft Boeing 737-700 has 143 customers and five crew members on board. We are in the process of gathering more information. Safety is always a top priority," Southwest Airlines says in a statementpic.twitter.com/jIaQ9mQyKi
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According to a passenger on the plane, there was an explosion in the left engine and shortly after, a window in the 17th row was blown out. CBS News has not independently verified the cause of the emergency landing https://cbsn.ws/2H6Prtt pic.twitter.com/9nQDGIImuH
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"We have a lot of preliminary information. Certainly pictures from the scene do appear that there was some kind of an uncontained engine failure,"
@krisvancleave says of Southwest flight incident https://cbsn.ws/2J6ljuz pic.twitter.com/9lcuQg1c1NShow this thread
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Clearly it was the engine cowling, not the engine itself, since the engine is still on the plane.
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Funny how this always seems to happen with discount airlines!
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What was the guy thinking? he started live streaming his possible death in a big ball of fire if the plane had crashed. Doesnt he know hes not allowed to use his phone till the plane stops at the terminal?
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