And this evening, moments ago, our correspondent asking, how concerned are you about the 737 fleet . There are so many of them in the air. Abcs david kerley leading us off. Reporter investigators tonight scouring that mangled engine, looking for every piece that landed on the ground, 60 miles from the philadelphia airport, hoping to learn if there is a problem with the 737 fleet. This was the second Engine Failure like this in two years. A source telling abc news they are similar engines, seems to be similar failures, metal fatigue, a Fan Blade Breaking at about the same spot. New details tonight about those horrifying moments at 30,000 feet. The first radio call. Southwest 1380 has an engine fire. Descending. Southwest 1380, are you youre descending right now . Yes, sir, were single engine descending. Reporter the bang of the engine ripping apart. That window blown out. Depressurization. A passenger sucked partway out
of the jetliner. Other passengers jumping into action, including ti
of the jetliner. other passengers jumping into action, including tim mcginty and a firefighter. the guy helped and we got her pulled in and they tried to resuscitate her. reporter: mcginty stood in front of the window to protect others. jennifer riordan lost her life. we learned tonight it was blunt force trauma. a mother of two, a marketing executive remembered tonight by her loved ones as the bedrock of our family. more praise for the pilots, including captain tammie jo shults, who was one of the first female navy fighter pilots, and whose calm demeanor came through on the radio before the emergency landing. is your airplane physically on fire? no, it s not on fire, but part of it is missing. they said there s a hole and someone went out. reporter: this boeing 737 was delivered 18 years ago, but that engine was rebuilt in 2012, and southwest says was not in need of an overhaul. but that apparent uncontained failure, in which extremely sharp shrapnel spews forward rather t
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