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Neil: we will talk more about this. the woman killed when a plaintiffs engine exploded died from blunt force trauma. jennifer morgan was struck in the head, and and torso when she was partially sucked out of a shattered window. she was wearing a seatbelt, investigators trying to determine how the window broke to begin with. metal fatigue on the engine and a missing sand blade. requiring inspection of those blades. a day after the nightmare plane explosion delta jet is grounded for an engine fire...

And this evening, moments ago, our correspondent asking, how concerned are you about the 737 fleet? there are so many of them in the air. abcs david kerley leading us off. >> reporter: investigators tonight scouring that mangled engine, looking for every piece that landed on the ground, 60 miles from the philadelphia airport, hoping to learn if there is a problem with the 737 fleet. this was the second engine failure like this in two years. a source telling abc news they are similar engines, see...

His death. martinez tells cnn he was on southwest airlines 1380 when one of the engines fails possibly from an explosion about 30 minutes into the flight from la guardia to dallas. >> all avenue sudden we hear this loud explosion and within a span of five seconds all of the -- awful of the oxygen masks deployed and then just a few seconds later another explosion happened and it was a window that just completely exploded. and as you could imagine, everybody was going crazy and yelling and screami...

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...

Them as a state sponsor of terror. jillian: iranian navy seconding warships into the backyard. a fleet will soon deploy to the gulf of mexico as part of an effort to globalize the nations military. back in july, a u.s. navy vessel fired warning shots at fast-approaching iranian boat in the persian gulf. one of at least a dozen encounters between the two militaries this year. heroes lost at sea. the navy suspending the search for three missing sailors after their plane crashed off the coast of ja...

Were given. thats it from here,ohn. it back to you. at this point what a strange new world. >> jenna: right now, a strange situation at jfk international airport. it an airplane reported engine fire on the runway last night. it pictures quickly surfaced on social media what apparently was showing a fire on the plane. oddly enough, rescue crews arrived and found no sign of fire. what happened is the big question and we are, quite frankly, not sure. i wouldnt want to be on the plane that was watch...

Inside of the tower as all of this was happening. >> 383 stopping on the run way. you do see any smoke or fire sf. >> fire on the right wing. >> send outlet the truck. >> were evacuating. >> well the airline blames this all on an engine-related issue. the faa says it was a blown tire. it is way early in this investigation. it could be both. it could be that this blown tire may have triggered that engine fire because of debris striking a gas line. but at this hour were also learning about a separ...

Other part of nonstandard means that the standard emergency is covered in flight manual, and so if you had the emergency and react in a certain way such as the engine fire or something along those lines. grow to the manual and the standard emergency response, and read the checklists, and go from there, and that is is what they were referring to there, no checklist for this, and no time to even initiate one, and that what the memo is telling us in aviation speak, if you will. >> and paul cruiksha...

Nbc chief global correspondent bill neely has the latest from cairo. if that was a missile, that infrared satellite would have been able to track it going from the surface of the ground to the air but that wasnt the case. so what else could have caused that heat flash? >> reporter: yeah, this is potentially really significant. so here you have the plane flying at 31,000 feet packed with people. above it is a u.s. satellite which at exactly the time of the disaster detects a heat flash, a brief i...

Speculation is this is something catastrophic. >> a heat flash. >> i know we all move in the bomb direction, however, it could be a catastrophic engine fire that would cause that heat flash. we saw thursday an evacuation with an engine fire in florida. if this happened in the air at that rate of the fuel dripping, its possible the back end of that engine could have torched that fuel if all of a sudden a leak developed in that engine. this is something we handle every day so its hard to go that d...