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Sucked out of the plain. the woman was described as a remarkable woman. meantime, the southwest airline pilot, tammie jo shults that called for emergency services to be prepared on scene, she's being hailed as a hero today for successfully landing the plane without more passengers being injured. shults was one of the first female fighter pilots for the navy and started in 1994. listen to her calmly talking about the situation when speaking with air traffic control. >> gary kelly said she and the flight crew handled the situation magnificently and did the job superbly. aviation experts said wha...

Meet us there on the runway as well. we've got an injured passenger. part of it's missing. >> it's just remarkable how they handled this. southwest ceo said they did their job superbly. that is an under statement. >> dana: what's 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 damage short of a window puncture. take a look at these pictures side by side. on the left a ph...

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. it's made by cfm international inc. what occurred is an uncontained fan failure or throwing a fan blade as it's 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 pilot's crew and passengers all worked together to survive this horrific flight. bret? >> bret: amazin...