masks optional for students in school, while another nine are requiring masks. some districts like shelby county in tennessee are preparing for a return to classes with mask mandates. our parents are very supportive and they understand that in the state of tennessee there is a 200% increase of covid-19, specifically the delta variant. 7 700 new cases per day. you know, i have said it before and i am going to continue to say it. i am going to keep students safe. both the cdc and the fda saying in a statement that they currently are exploring multiple options how to make a third covid-19 vaccine dose available specifically to immunocompromised individuals should that become necessary. we should mention that a recent study found 44% of those people hospitalized with so-called breakthrough cases are immunocompromised people. we should remind people that
one aisle. it s actually sold. boing has sold more than 14,000 of these planes. it s got a backlog in production of more than 46 00 orders. more than 300 airlines in 111 countries fly the 737. you can see the airlines. southwest, by the way, owns the biggest number of 737s. the entire fleet is 737s. one takes off or lands every two seconds. it makes up about 31% of all commercial flights. the company estimates it s carried about 23 billion passengers in total. now, according to global safety records, incidents on the 737 700. the type of plane involved in tuesday s accident are rare. since the year 2000, there are 17 accidents involved this plane eight of which on southwest airlines flights. remember, it is 100% of
partially sucked out of the window hole before her fellow flyers scrambled to her rescue and pulled her back in. now, the faa says flight 1380 landed at 11:20 a.m. after the crew reported damage to one of the aircraft engines, as well as the fuselage and at least one window. passengers are scene exiting the plane using air stairs. passenger marty martinez shared some really alarming photos on facebook, even briefly going live. he wrote engine exploded in the air and blew out window three seats from me. the explosion injured a female sitting in the seat next to the window. southwest airlines saying the following in a statement. we are aware that southwest flight 1380 from new york la guardia to dallas love field has diverted to philadelphia international airport. the flight has landed at phl and we are process of gathering more information. the aircraft is a boeing 737 700
questions trying to, everyone s trying to figure out right now? actually there will be a lot more questions than meets the eye because there have been many accidents like this in the past and as miles said, the previous accidents are why we have the arrester beds. good to think of them as boxes of concrete with sand inside. they ll look at the spoiler systems and the auto braking on the plane. this is a 737 700. they are pretty new the first ones flew in 19 the 8, see if the toe brakes and thrusters work. there s a lot of equipment on the plane the ntsb will want to look at in addition to the runway. the condition was listed as good, grooved, it has the arester beds. so they avoided the zaeser in chica disaster in chicago a few years back. this plane is not going to see
gps. i m a p i m a peon. i don t understand how us regular folk can get where we need to go within a few feet and an aircraft is seven miles off its mark. this is a 737 700, what they call a next generation plane. it has the latest in navigational aids and in flight management aids. the pilots were likely making what they call a visual flight approach. they were likely in contact with the tower at branson and the question is, how did not only one of them miss it? how did both of them miss it? what it s called in the trade is a lack of a situational awareness. why weren t these pilots paying attention and then, secondly, it is what they call cockpit resource management. how come the non-flying pilot didn t point out that this was not lining up precisely the way the branson airport should have