In-flight photo of the engine taken by a passenger. Shortly after, the crew reported that they had an engine failure and were to initiate an emergency descent. The crew donned their oxygen masks following the resulting depressurization. The crew noticed that the rpm of the left engine had dropped to zero and the fuel pressure had also dropped to zero. The cabin altitude alarm sounded immediately. The pilot immediately took control of the flight and levelled the wings. They heard a loud sound and felt severe vibration and the aircraft suddenly rolled uncontrollably to the left with a 41-degree bank angle. However, when it was climbing through F元20 out of New York, the left-hand engine (CFM56) sustained damage causing the inlet and parts of the cowl to separate from the airframe. Captain Shults is a former United States Navy fighter pilot whereas the F/O is a former United States Air Force pilot with experience in the Boeing E-3 Sentry and a veteran in the Iraq War.įlight 1380 departed from La Guardia Airport (LGA), about 30 minutes earlier with the F/O flying and the captain monitoring. The cockpit crew consisted of Tammie Jo Shults (56-year-old), who had a total of 11,715 flight hours, including 10,513 hours on the Boeing 737, and First Officer Darren Lee Ellisor (44-year-old), who had 9,508 flight hours, with 6,927 hours on the Boeing 737. The Boeing 737-700 with registration N772SW was performing flight WN1380 from New York La Guardia Airport, New York to Dallas Love Field Airport, Texas with 149 people on board including 144 passengers and 5 crew members. Following the engine failure, the depressurization pushed a passenger partially out of the window, causing critical injuries that led to her death. Debris from the uncontained engine failure smashed a passenger window. Might be nice to note this in the wiki somehow, if it is not already there.On April 17, 2018, at about 11:03 eastern daylight time, a Southwest Airlines (SWA) flight experienced an engine failure while climbing through F元20 en route to the flight’s assigned cruise altitude. Taking the clock change into consideration.Įasier put, check in begins the day prior to your flight at the same time your flight is scheduled to depart, regardless of a clock change. Check in technically begins at 23 hours prior to the scheduled departure time for spring forward and 25 hours prior for fall back. I guess that means two exceptions per year to the 24-hour rule. I attempted checking in at 1:10pm today but was unsuccessful. Scheduled departure time of 2:10pm tomorrow. I will leave it up to the better informed, more technical among us to decipher what all this means.Yup, exact same experience for me today checking in for tomorrow's flight. One hour later, at T-24, or T-23, depending on how you count, I was able to OLCH, garnering A19. I will try again in one hour (well actually, 57 minutes). Got the "The request to check in and print your Boarding Pass is more than 24 hours prior to your scheduled departure or less than 1 hour prior to departure flight time." message. Well, my departure is for 12:45 tomorrow, and so at 11:45 today (T-24) I attempted to OLCI.
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