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Some important breaking news were monitoring here at cnn. you see that airplane on the tarmac in philadelphia. a southwest flight was forced to make an emergency landing. live pictures on the ground in philadelphia. if you look to the left and right of your screen, you can see some visible damage there. the foam, what appears to be firefighting foam, on the ground there. emergency responders on the scene as well. its hard to get information in these early moments, but lets bring in one of our av...

An emergency land ing in philadelphia after a catastrophic engine failure. they landed safely. they a southwest flight 1380 took off from la guardia in new york and was head to do dallas. 140 passengers and crew members on board. one passenger appears to be in the hospital. well get you the latest information on that as soon as we get it. president trump promised, remember, that russia would pay a big price after the recent chemical weapons attack am sin syria. it looks like, though, ambassado...

Have i ever experienced a situation like this? no. >> how unusual is an contained engine failure -- >> how frequently do we see what would qualify as an uncontained engine failure? about three or four a year. not all of those involve u.s. carriers. in late fall there was an a-380 that had an uncontained engine failure over greenland. that was not a u.s. carrier. >> we understand there was a proposed airworthiness directive involving this model of engine. what can you tell us about that? >> what ...

The plane to make an emergency landing and in the middle of president trumps battle with james comey, the president takes heat for undercutting the united nations ambassador and walking back new sanctions on russia. ill speak with congressman eric swalwell and our correspondents are all standing by with full coverage. but right to the breaking news, that deadly engine failure aboard a southwest airlines jet. ryan todd is joining us. what is the latest and what are you learning? >> reporter: just...

Window is the fuselage. there was the american airlines flien, flight, 767, on the ground but then you get to the quantis flying from singapore to sydney, engine failure, uncontained, blew out parts of the system and these are very serious incidents. >> what happens if youre at altitude and the window bursts and it makes sense the oxygen masks drop. what happens to the cabin pressure? >> if the parts pierce the cabin, they can cause whats called a rapid decompression and its a very dangerous sit...

Can you speak to how rare [inaudible] >> the term you said uncontained engine fire. some people are saying uncontained engine failure. we dont think there was a fire at all. now, the term has been widely used this morning and this afternoon uncontained engine failure. now, i dont want to sound peru cratic, but that uncontained engine failure coconnotate as very specific thing. the engine is designed to not have an uncontained engine failure. there are protection rings around the engine to keep s...

National transportation safety board. and the ntsb is launching a go team to philadelphia to begin our investigation of this event involving a southwest airlines flight earlier this morning. heres the information that we have at this time. at about 11:15 this morning, southwest flight 1380, boeing 737, 700 was in route from laguardia to dallas love when it suffered an apparent engine failure in flight engine failure of the left engine. and subsequently diverted into philadelphia. the registratio...

An engine failure. once we get there, and look at it, we may say well, in fact, this is an uncontained engine failure. we do know that parts came off the engine, but those parts may not have been in that section of the engine that is associated with the protection region associated with an uncontained engine failure is the question here. >> can you tell me what the status of the investigation into flight 472 -- do you need more information? >> what is the status of the previous southwest airline...

I have ever experienced a situation like this? and the answer to that is no. i will take two more questions. there is a question right here. >> i understand you cant classify this how unusual is uncontained engine fire vs. how unusual is an amid-air. >> great question. even if this is not uncontained engine failure how frequent does the ntsb see what we technically do sees a uncontained engine failure. and the answer to that is about three or four a year. and not all of those involve u.s. carrie...

New yorks laguardia airport. tracking data from flight aware.com shows the flight was heading west over new yorks southern tier before abruptly turning toward philadelphia. these are pictures taken by some other passengers. this one by christopher johnson of the crew. 143 passengers, five crew members on board. and, shep, when you look at this and you hear an engine failure in mid-air and the harrowing rescue of all of these passengers that tried to scurry to the rescue of this woman who was lit...