Sentences with phrase «airline passenger fatality»

The woman died of her injuries, marking the first U.S. airline passenger fatality since 2009.

No one was injured in the incident, which came two weeks after an engine on a Southwest 737 ripped apart in flight and shattered a window, killing a female passenger in the first U.S. airline passenger fatality since 2009.

Not exact matches

Southwest Airlines said it is testing thousands of fan blades but another engine component could be responsible for the fuselage damage that resulted in a passenger fatality.

A passenger was partially sucked out of the window and died, marking the first fatality of a passenger aboard a U.S. airline since 2009.

The blast shattered a window, killing a passenger who was partially sucked out of the plane window in the first U.S. passenger airline fatality since 2009.

That record for avoiding fatalities — which had never been approached in the history of modern aviation — was splintered in an instant Tuesday when an engine on a Southwest Airlines (luv) plane exploded mid-air, spewing shrapnel into a window and killing a passenger.

The person who died on the Southwest flight on Tuesday was the first fatality in a US passenger airline accident in over nine years.

Riordan was reportedly the first passenger ever to die on a Southwest flight, and the first fatality on any U.S. airline since 2009.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Federal investigators on Thursday said the engine fan blade that broke apart during a Southwest Airlines flight last month showed signs consistent with metal fatigue, as inspectors probe the first passenger fatality on a U.S. airline in nearly a decade.

Southwest Airlines on Tuesday (April 17) experienced the first accident - related fatality on a US passenger airline since 2009 after an engine failure.