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Successful emergency landing in florida after fan blade separated from the same type of engine, really, how common are the engine failures? >> they are not common at all, this is a rather rare, but to have the fan blade the way it did, it's very rare, indeed, and that's why the controversy around what kind of inspections has occurred, that's why the airlines have been pushing back on ge, on requiring the level of inspections that they are talking about because it doesn't balance against the level of problems that we've had. >> when something like this happens, do the airlines or for that matte...

Two similar incidents. are you concerned about the 737 fleet tonight? >> we are very concerned about this particular event. engine failures like this should not occur, obviously. we feel that this is a deeper issue. we have the capability to issue urgent safety recommendations. >> and david kerley with us live tonight from philadelphia airport. and david, you were just at that ntsb briefing. we saw you asking the questions, and you're learning just what those pilots had to do to get the plane down safely? >> reporter: immediately after that engine ripped apart, david, the plane lurched over to...

The most important thing right now would be to isolate those repair and maintenance records on that engine. given there have been a number -- and not on southwest -- on a number of different airlines uncontrolled engine failures in the last couple years, they'll want to see, is there a pattern? is there one particular part? maybe it's the manufacturer. that was the case of the sue ci -- sioux city crash in iowa where there was a flaw right out of the box of manufacturing, and right away that flaw grew and the stress on the engine finally caused it to fail. so they're going to look at the manuf...

Engine maker saffron. maybe there is some common point of interest or clue between those two incidents, whether it's maintenance or design. that's the kind of thing the ntsb will be diving into thoroughly here. these uncontained engine failures, wolf, are very rare. they're designed to fail in such a way that they don't spin out that shrapnel. of course, it's a great hazard. it killed two people on the ground in florida in the mid-'90s on a delta md-88. we don't know the particulars of this passenger. was that person sitting inside that window? it stands to reason, but we'll have to see what k...

This is possibly one scenario, a lot of drag on the airplane and the airplane would start descending. jon: and if you have a full load of fuel and full load of passengers that can be obviously tragic. >> it's a one scenario. they are also looking at fuel problems and it did get fully fueled where it last landed and we are looking at possibly engine failures, there's a lot that play out, so the flight data recorder that they discovered and the voice recorder, both of those will show accurate depiction and give a narrative on what brought the plane down. jon: update on egypt 804 which went down ...