Sentences with phrase «causing shrapnel»

One passenger was killed Tuesday on a Dallas - bound Southwest flight after an engine exploded, causing shrapnel to cut into the Boeing 737 - 700's fuselage, or the body of the plane.

These defects may cause shrapnel and debris to be distributed around the car, or cause the airbag to malfunction and not deploy.

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Heart condition: With his on - again, off - again heart condition — caused by the shrapnel that was originally lodged there — Stark would probably have been wise to live in close proximity to some renowned cardiology centres.

Shrapnel pierced the airplane's fuselage, blew out a window, and caused the cabin of the airplane to depressurize.

The EAD comes after a fan blade on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 - 700 snapped off mid-flight, spraying shrapnel that punctured the aircraft's fuselage causing depressurization.

«Shrapnel hit the window, causing a serious injury,» Kristopher Johnson, a passenger onboard, told CNN.

At the Joint Pathology Center in Maryland, researchers are investigating an important medical issue: whether shrapnel embedded in the bodies of U.S. soldiers can cause chronic health problems.

That leaves me with some sort of pink shrapnel look from my closet that causes me to look average on a day I want to be smoking!

A consortium of 10 automaker clients of Takata has just determined that the root causes of the shrapnel misfires are the supplier's use of ammonium nitrate, plus the way Takata constructed the assembly, both combined with exposure to heat and humidity, Automotive News reported Tuesday.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration already has fined Takata $ 70 million for its apparent reluctance to notify the agency of a defect that caused bags to shoot dangerous, sharp shrapnel.

This causes the propellant to burn too quickly, rupturing the inflator module and hurling shrapnel into the cabin.

Concern: In the event of a collision, if the front passenger airbag is deployed, the excessive pressure could cause the inflator to fragment with the potential to injure vehicle occupants with metal shrapnel.

The defective airbags are assembled with either a faulty pressure regulator or defective propellant mixture that tends to cause the expulsion of metal shrapnel into the passenger compartment.

That makes good sense, because a tank can explode and not only cause a fire, but also turn into a shrapnel bomb.

When the airbag begins to inflate the force becomes too great and the pump explodes, causing metal shards and shrapnel to be propelled into the vehicle.

The investigation went so far that a «person of interest» was named before police realized that shrapnel from the airbag was at fault for the lacerations to the victims neck that eventually caused her death.

That makes good sense, because a tank can explode and not only cause a fire, but also turn into a shrapnel bomb.