Tammie Jo Shults, aged 56, a former United States Navy fighter pilot, was the captain of the flight. įive crew members and 144 passengers were on board. It was powered by two CFM56-7B24 engines. The aircraft was a Boeing 737-7H4 with the registration N772SW, in service with Southwest Airlines since its manufacture in 2000. Background N772SW, the aircraft involved, seen at McCarran International Airport, in 2013, while still wearing its Canyon Blue livery.įlight 1380 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from New York LaGuardia Airport to Dallas Love Field. Southwest did not perform the inspection on the engine involved in this failure because it was not within the parameters specified by the directive. After that earlier accident, the engine manufacturer, CFM, issued a service directive calling for ultrasonic inspections of the turbine fan blades with certain serial numbers, service cycles, or service time.
This accident was very similar to an accident suffered 20 months earlier by Southwest Airlines Flight 3472 flying the same aircraft type with the same engine type. One passenger was partially ejected from the aircraft and sustained fatal injuries, while eight other passengers sustained minor injuries.
The crew carried out an emergency descent and diverted to Philadelphia International Airport. Other fragments caused damage to the wing. The engine cowl was broken in the failure and cowl fragments damaged the fuselage, shattering a cabin window and causing explosive depressurization of the aircraft. Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 was a Boeing 737-700 that experienced a contained engine failure in the left CFM56-7B engine after departing from New York–LaGuardia Airport en route to Dallas Love Field on April 17, 2018.