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And mouse game. she kept braking. >> reporter: she said bonnie repeatedly slammed on the brakes, forcing frances to slam on hers. frances had a large slab of granite in the back of her escalade from a home renovation project. >> i can hear this piece of granite every time i brake because it moves. >> reporter: as bonnie accelerated, frances stayed on her. it was as if she had developed tunnel vision, could focus on only one thing. >> im going to confront her. im done. ive had it with her. im goi...

Im going to tell her, you want him? keep him. >> the "him" in all of this, bill, had been riding his motorcycle in front of bonnie. but as the chase unfolded, he suddenly slowed down. >> all this time, bill is in front of us. and i see bill pulling over. then shes passing him. >> then, frances said, bill dropped back to her right. >> and im passing bill. i see bill from my passenger window. and she brakes. and i brake. and i heard something. i heard a thump. >> that piece of granite again, franc...

Traveling at high rate of speed. i dont know, 90-100 miles an hour that black range rover was. >> an off-duty officer spotted bonnie and frances and called it in. >> theyre hauling ass driving on the wrong side of the road acting like idiots. >> frances was still on bonnies tail, when -- >> i hear this wind coming in. >> the howl of the wind snapped frances out of her trance. she looked back and realized her third-row passenger window was shattered. and then, she realized something else. she cou...

And i brake. and i heard something. i heard a thump. >> reporter: that piece of granite again, frances thought, and she continued to chase after bonnie, still hell-bent on confronting her. suddenly, bonnie made a u-turn. >> and as she makes a u-turn, i make the u-turn. she takes off. >> i got a black escalade and a black range rover theyre traveling at high rate of speed. i dont know, 90-100 miles an hour that black range rover was. >> reporter: an off-duty officer spotted bonnie and frances and...

Passengers death. laura engal has been breaking this down. >> scary moments in the sky for passengers on board a southwest airlines flight that involves passenger again with a passenger window. this time on a flight traveling from chicago to new jersey. we are getting our first look at the window which busted open mid-flight. a passenger tweeted pictures from inside the plane that shows the window with a large jagged break. there are no reports of injuries on flight 957 that landed safely in cle...

Shrapnel, a piece of the engine smashed into a passenger window. a picture clearly showing it was blown out. can you imagine? 30,000-plus feet and gone. other passengers on board heard some sort of mass of explosion. this picture, weve got another one for you, taken inside the cabin showed what appeared to be significant damage to the jet with part of the covering from its left engine entirely ripped off. so lets begin with our reporter polo sandoval. we know what passenger has been taken to the...

Engine maker saffron. maybe there is some common point of interest or clue between those two incidents, whether its maintenance or design. thats the kind of thing the ntsb will be diving into thoroughly here. these uncontained engine failures, wolf, are very rare. theyre designed to fail in such a way that they dont spin out that shrapnel. of course, its a great hazard. it killed two people on the ground in florida in the mid-90s on a delta md-88. we dont know the particulars of this passenger. ...

Analyst as well. it would be nice to get your thoughts over this disaster not too far from philadelphia. >> i think youre wise to point out to viewers apparently a broken window, a passenger window, stands to reason it had something to do with the shrapnel that have been kicked out by this uncontained engine failure. i should know from your viewers, wolf, back in august of 2016 southwest had a very similar incident. an uncontained engine failure. this aircraft was headed from louis armstrong air...

Reported and worked on these kinds of injury disasters in the past. walk us through what were seeing right now. >> i think youre right. i have been on scene on these kinds of disasters. theyre very rare. the turbo fan engine is extraordinarily reliable. but in this case it looks like it came apart midair, whats called an uncontained failure. pieces of the internal engine exited the cowling of the engine, and it looks like it penetrated into the fuselage and that window blew out. that would expla...

I see bill from my passenger window. and she brakes. and i brake. and i heard something. i heard a thump. >> reporter: that piece of granite again, frances thought, and she continued to chase after bonnie, still hell-bent on confronting her. suddenly, bonnie made a u-turn. >> and as she makes a u-turn, i make the u-turn. she takes off. >> i got a black escalade and a black range rover theyre traveling at high rate of speed. i dont know, 90-100 miles an hour that black range rover was. >> reporte...