husband so she could attend her son's track meet. >> dean being the amazing husband said, you go to the track meet, i'll switch and take your trip. so that's why i was on the trip. >> reporter: shortly after the boeing 737 took off from new york's la guardia, the fan blade broke, the debris struck the body of the plane, cracking one window which eventually broke open. the passenger was pulled partly out of the aircraft but was brought back in by other passengers. however, the passenger, jennifer reardon, didn't survive. >> you can imagine everybody was going crazy and yelling and screaming. >> reporter: first officer darren also spoke with abc news about the incident. >> we were passing through about 32,000 feet when we had a large bang and a rapid decompression. there was shaking, everything. it all kind of happened all at once. >> reporter: shultz said she and her first officer used hand