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Shrapnel, a piece of the engine smashed into a passenger window. a picture clearly showing it was blown out. can you imagine? 30,000-plus feet and gone. other passengers on board heard some sort of mass of explosion. this picture, we've got another one for you, taken inside the cabin showed what appeared to be significant damage to the jet with part of the covering from its left engine entirely ripped off. so let's begin with our reporter polo sandoval. we know what passenger has been taken to the hospital. do we have a status condition of this individual and how was this person injured? >> re...

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...

Analyst as well. it would be nice to get your thoughts over this disaster not too far from philadelphia. >> i think you're wise to point out to viewers apparently a broken window, a passenger window, stands to reason it had something to do with the shrapnel that have been kicked out by this uncontained engine failure. i should know from your viewers, wolf, back in august of 2016 southwest had a very similar incident. an uncontained engine failure. this aircraft was headed from louis armstrong airport in new orleans to orlando, diverted to pensacola. some shrapnel penetrated the skin of the air...

Reported and worked on these kinds of injury disasters in the past. walk us through what we're seeing right now. >> i think you're right. i have been on scene on these kinds of disasters. they're very rare. the turbo fan engine is extraordinarily reliable. but in this case it looks like it came apart midair, what's called an uncontained failure. pieces of the internal engine exited the cowling of the engine, and it looks like it penetrated into the fuselage and that window blew out. that would explain why the oxygen masks dropped immediately. it had to be a harrowing experience inside the plan...

I see bill from my passenger window. and she brakes. and i brake. and i heard something. i heard a thump. >> reporter: that piece of granite again, frances thought, and she continued to chase after bonnie, still hell-bent on confronting her. suddenly, bonnie made a u-turn. >> and as she makes a u-turn, i make the u-turn. she takes off. >> i got a black escalade and a black range rover they're traveling at high rate of speed. i don't know, 90-100 miles an hour that black range rover was. >> reporter: an off-duty officer spotted bonnie and frances and called it in. >> they're hauling ass driving...