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And then almost 99% of the time you make it on the ground. but as we were going through this experience, you know, to hear a boom and then moments later for all of the oxygen masks to deploy, i didn't have much time to think, and then when you -- when we heard another sort of explosion, then that was the window going out just two rows over from me, i felt like my life, like all my hopes, all my aspirations, everything i've ever wanted to do was just taken from me. >> wow. you really felt it was going to end? >> yeah. absolutely. all i could think about was the fact that i hadn't talked to my m...

They the expected it to last over four hours. it's a routine run taken by hundreds every week. flight tracking data shows the plane taking off. heading over eastern pennsylvania. climbing to an altitude of just over 32,000 feet when about 20 minutes into the trip every passenger and the pilots' worst nightmare happened. >> there was an explosion when the engine went. >> i hear this noise, and everything shakes up. and i look outside, and it's totally broken apart. folded bag on itself. >> the masks came down, and people were putting them on. and basically i think all of us thought this might b...

When you've got only the thrust of one engine, you have 144 passengers, and various degrees of panic or concern. tell us about landing a plane in that sort of situation. >> the airplanes are designed to be able to fly sifly with the loss of one engine and pilots are routinely trained in loss of the engine in take off, landing, all parts of flight. i'm sure the pilots were well trained to handle this situation regarding loss of an engine even if it's lost not just because the engine quit or oil pressure, but an uncontained explosion. >> one life was lost, but you two are sitting here. your live...

Blades ripped free. the plane descended 15,000 feet in a very short amount of time. this is what the engine looked like when it was on the ground. you don't have to be an aviation enthusiast to know no engine should look like that. a piece of engine cover found 70 miles away in burnville, pennsylvania. but in the moments after the explosion, the passengers had no way of knowing what was going on. you'd heard it described that the oxygen masks fell from the ceiling. then even more horror. >> and then all of a sudden there was a really big commotion about four rows behind me. it was a lot of cha...