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>> the southwest airlines pilot who called for emergency services to be prepared on scene upon the planes landing is being hailed as a hero for successfully landing the plane without more passengers being injured. schultz was one of the first female fighter pilots for the u.s. navy and started at the airline in 1994. southwest airline ceo says she and the flight crew handled the situation magnificently and did their job superbly. aviation experts tell me what occurred is an uncontained flowing a...

A rare occurrence but not that first for southwest airlines. this happened in 2016. same engine, same airline and damage short of a window puncture. on the left, 2016. on the right, yesterdays engine. eerie similarities. a complete investigation could take up to a year. >> neil: thanks very much. lets dip into this press conference here. >> an indication in the cockpit for engine vibration. it increased significantly on the left engine. shortly thereafter the cabin attitude warning horn activate...

Meet us there on the runway as well. weve got an injured passenger. part of its missing. >> its just remarkable how they handled this. southwest ceo said they did their job superbly. that is an under statement. >> dana: whats really disturbing, you found out this is not the first time this has happened. >> yeah. i was shocked. it had happened before but aviation experts are actually telling me this is the same thing that happened in 2016. look at this picture. same engine, same airplane and same...

Short of a window puncture. take a look at this photo on board an engine of southwest flight in 2016 compared to the one that failed today. this engine is a gecfm 56, 7 b 22 engine. its made by cfm international inc. what occurred is an uncontained fan failure or throwing a fan blade as its called by the experts, which, by the way, is a rare occurrence but experts tell me it does happen on occasion. and it happened today. now the flight was carrying 143 passengers and five crew members. the pilo...