Fragments from the inlet and cowling struck the wing and fuselage and broke a window at row 14 in the passenger compartment, which caused rapid decompression of the aircraft. As a result, most of the engine inlet and parts of the cowling broke off. Pieces of the engine nacelle were found in a Pennsylvania field.Īt 11:03 am Eastern Daylight Time, the aircraft was flying at 32,000 feet (9,800 m) and climbing when the left engine failed. : 7–9 Five crew members and 144 passengers were on board. First Officer Ellisor had been with the airline since 2008 and had 9,508 flight hours, with 6,927 hours on the Boeing 737. Captain Shults had been with Southwest Airlines since 1994 and had logged a total 11,715 flight hours, including 10,513 hours on the Boeing 737. Darren Lee Ellisor, aged 44, a former United States Air Force (1997–2007) pilot with experience in the Boeing E-3 Sentry and a veteran in the Iraq War, was the first officer. Tammie Jo Shults, aged 56, a former United States Navy fighter pilot, was the captain of the flight.
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES REGISTRATION
The aircraft was a Boeing 737-7H4 with the registration N772SW, in service with Southwest Airlines since its manufacture in 2000. N772SW, the aircraft involved, seen at McCarren International Airport, in 2013, while still wearing its Canyon Blue livery.įlight 1380 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from New York LaGuardia Airport to Dallas Love Field. passenger carrier since the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 in February 2009 and the first aircraft accident involving Southwest Airlines that resulted in the death of a passenger. This was the first fatal airline accident involving a U.S. Southwest did not perform the inspection on this engine because it was not within the parameters specified by the directive.
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES SERIAL
After that accident, the engine manufacturer, CFM, issued a service directive calling for ultrasonic inspections of the turbine fan blades with certain serial numbers, service cycles or service time. This accident was very similar to an accident suffered 20 months earlier by Southwest Airlines Flight 3472 flying the same aircraft type with the same engine type. Eight other passengers received minor injuries. One passenger was partially ejected from the aircraft and later died. The crew conducted an emergency descent and diverted to Philadelphia International Airport. Other fragments caused damage to the wing. The engine cowl was broken in the failure and cowl fragments damaged the fuselage, causing explosive depressurization of the aircraft after damaging a cabin window. Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 was a Boeing 737-7H4 that experienced a contained engine failure in the left CFM56-7B engine after departing from New York–LaGuardia Airport en route to Dallas Love Field on April 17, 2018.
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