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Pilots for being kwacalm in the middle of all this. joining us as well on beeper, miles. miles, now that you heard jason carroll and you heard christopher johnson about what happened here, by one account, and often we get additional information, an injury on board and possibly some breach from shrapnel. is that how you're taking it so far? >> that could be the supposition here. you have what would cause the injury. i suppose doing a rapid descent, if the seat belt wasn't on, there could have been injury from that. this is an uncontained engine failure. shrapnel does indeed spin out at a very h...

By for me if you can. i want to bring jason carolyn to the conversation. he's in new york. jason, at least one passenger perhaps injured? >> that's correct, miles. according to what we learned, this was southwest flight 1380. it left this morning from new york city initialliey headed to dallas. when it was midway through the flight, something happened with one of the left engines. this according to a passenger who was on board that flight. he says once on board, something from the engine injured -- ended up injuring a passenger who was on board. we have calls out to emergency responders there ...

Just when they were apparently west of philly, something happened with the left engine, and again, a passenger on board was injured. you can see the flight there on the tarmac. emergency crews are there on the ground. we have calls out to fire, the faa, the airport as well. as soon as we're able to get more information, we'll bring it to you as soon as we can. >> i'll let you continue your reporting, jason, and please come back as soon as you do have more information. i want to go back to miles bryan, our aviation expert. i want to caution viewers that it turns out you either get additional in...

Result. that was on an md-88 which is where the engines are tightly fitted right close to the fuselage in the back. in this case the 737, you see it highlighted there. the left side, the engine hangs underneath the wing, and so the risk of jeopardy is slightly diminished because it's just farther away from the passengers. and the seating arrangement and window arrangement of these aircrafts is designed so that if these things happen, people are not in harm's way. so that's what happened. obviously the aircraft is perfectly fine to fly on one engine, and it did, in fact, land safely. obviously ...

Some important breaking news we're monitoring here at cnn. you see that airplane on the tarmac in philadelphia. a southwest flight was forced to make an emergency landing. live pictures on the ground in philadelphia. if you look to the left and right of your screen, you can see some visible damage there. the foam, what appears to be firefighting foam, on the ground there. emergency responders on the scene as well. it's hard to get information in these early moments, but let's bring in one of our aviation analysts, mailes bryan joins us from boston. miles, it's good to see you but not under the...