guess what, in august of 2015, so i guess roughly a year and a half ago, there was also an engine failure, something similar happened on a different southwest airplane, so miles, does it sound like to you that this is metal fatigue and this is something that everybody needs to start taking more seriously? absolutely and that s why this investigation is headed. we re talking about the first fatality on a u.s. airliner since 2009. it s an amazing safety record and the reason we re so safe in the aviation industry is we learn from incidents and mistakes and events that happen. august 2016, metal fatigue, a fan blade breaks off, nobody got injured but it was hauntingly parallel to what happened yesterday. the ntsb is still open. they re so overwhelmed they haven t closed out the investigation and the faa did not take the appropriate amount of urgency to respond to tha and now we have what appears to be a repeat scenario.
shepard: what else are you hear something. the ntsb inspected the failed left engine after the emergency landing and said one of the 24 blades was missing. take a listen to the chairman of the ntsb. the fan blade was broken at the hub. and our preliminary examination of this was that there s evidence of metal fatigue where the blade separated. the flight was headed from new york to dallas where this happened. a piece of the engine covering was found 70 mile west of philadelphia. you can see in these pictures how the damage is similar to another southwest incident where a fan blade broke out in 2016 ripping a foot-long hole in the plane. in that situation, nobody died. the engine maker and the faa instructed airlines to make ultra sonic inspections of the
there is a whole. reporter: the woman identified as jennifer riordan of albuquerque, new mexico, did not survive, she was a mother of two and executive at wells fargo. 150 passengers and crew members shaken as they walked onto the tarmac. some didn t think they would survive. my wife is in her third trimester, first child. trying to articulate what i wanted my final words to be to my unborn child. reporter: the perimeter examination shows evidence of metal fatigue on the engine and a fan blade was missing the. part of the broken engine recovered 70 miles west of philadelphia. tammy jo shultz being held hero for safely landing the plane, one of the first female fighter pilots in the u.s. navy.
it s not a fire but part of it is missing. severe weather s ceo said she handled the job magnificently. aviation experts said it threw a fan blade, when is a rare occurrence. it happened in 2016, same engine, same airline. check out the two side by side photos. the ntsb says a complete investigation could take up to a year. thanks to the pilots and the crew and the passengers everybody survived the flight. the similarities is striking. tells you a lot. julie, thank you. sure. that s not necessary. there s no indication that mueller will be fired. i don t think the president will do that. and just as a practical matter, even if we passed it, we would
the southwest airlines pilot who called for emergency services to be prepared on scene upon the plane s landing is being hailed as a hero for successfully landing the plane without more passengers being injured. schultz was one of the first female fighter pilots for the u.s. navy and started at the airline in 1994. southwest airline ceo says she and the flight crew handled the situation magnificently and did their job superbly. aviation experts tell me what occurred is an uncontained flowing a fan blade, a rare occurrence but it does happen on occasion. this exact same thing happened in 2016. look at these pictures side-by-side. same engine, same airline, and same damage short of that window puncture. look at this photo of the engine aboard a southwest flight in 2016 compared to the one that failed yesterday. the pilots, crew and passengers