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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

All right, today is Wednesday, April 18th.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

A Southwest Airlines jet blew an engine at 32,000 feet and got hit by shrapnel and smashed a window setting off a desperate scramble by passengers to save a woman from getting sucked out.

That woman later died and seven others were injured.

Passengers dragged the woman back in as the sudden decompression of the cabin pulled her partway through the opening, but she was gravely injured.

They said that one passenger couldn't do it himself and somebody else had to get up and help.

Yeah.

And then they were trying to administer CPR on the plane during all of this, all of this that was happening.

I mean, they said there was blood all over the place, too.

So sad.

The pilot of the plane, a twin engine Boeing 737, bound from New York to Dallas with 149 people on board,

took it into a rapid descent and made an emergency landing in Philadelphia as passengers using oxygen masks that dropped from the ceiling, said prayers, embraced for impact.

The woman who died was identified as Jennifer Reordin, a Wells Fargo Bank executive and mother of two from

Albuquerque, New Mexico.

She was the first passenger killed in an accident involving a U.S. airline since 2009.

The seven other victims suffered minor injuries.

The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team of investigators to Philadelphia in a late-night news conference.

The NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt said a preliminary examination of the engine showed evidence of metal fatigue.

One of the engine's fan blades was separated and missing.

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