"The fan blade separated in two places", said NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt. The airline estimated that it would need 18 months to conduct the inspections. Seven passengers were injured.

"They will begin to examine the inspection records for this engine and specifically for this fan section, these fan blades to understand the inspection history and what type of inspections were conducted", Sumwalt said. It's not an easy inspection. "They said there's a hole, and uh, someone went out".

Federal investigators said that initial findings show that Tuesday's emergency was caused by a fan blade that snapped off, leading to debris hitting the Southwest Airlines plane and a woman being partially blown out a window.

"We started CPR on the lady, which we continued for about 20 minutes".

None of the passengers who survived the flight have made any form of complaint against the company either.

Such payments are not uncommon in such situations, said Mary Schiavo, a transportation lawyer and CNN analyst.

So that's what she did.

Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox News. That I'll never be able to say goodbye to my wife, say goodbye to my parents.

"And I looked at her eyes and she basically gave me the approval to go back there", Needum told reporters at a news conference Thursday, April 19. "And I felt moved to act". They say she was happy, bubbly, kind and sweet. "She comforted everyone. She's an amazing person".

It was also no surprise to her that Tammie Jo Shults was the pilot credited with the skillful landing. Boeing delivered the plane to Southwest in July 2000. "The Captain in command safely returned the flight to BNA".

The proposal would be more sweeping than federal authorities anticipated, Southwest said in a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration. "It just didn't register what could have been".

She recalled attending a lecture on aviation during her senior year of high school, in 1979. The first is that our "similar companies" are actually similar to LUV. And it would need more time to implement the stricter inspections sought. Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC now owns 2,607 shares of the airline's stock worth $170,000 after purchasing an additional 2,224 shares in the last quarter. The death generated an outpouring of grief from Albuquerque, N.M., business leaders, elected officials, poets and activists. "He was tending to her", Mr Martinez said. For comparison's sake, the most recent accidental death on a U.S. airline was in 2009, when Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed and killed 50 people.

But regulators face questions over the speed of their response to the Southwest jet's 2016 engine blowout.

She served in the Navy for 10 years, reaching the rank of Navy lieutenant commander.

We actually take that for granted.

"And meanwhile, there was blood all over this man's hands". If the companies aren't similar, the difference in P/E might be a result of other factors. We extend our deepest sympathies to her family and friends.

Faiz Siddiqui is a reporter with The Washington Post's transportation team. It also fractured roughly halfway through it. But it appears the fatigue fracture was the initial event. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have given a hold rating and sixteen have given a buy rating to the company's stock.