Southwest Airlines has canceled more than 40 flights after an explosion on one of the flights

Southwest Airlines has canceled 40 flights or 1% of all scheduled flights due to engine checks after the crashin which 1 died and 7 was injured, writes CNBC.

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Inspection of CFM56-7B engines (a similar engine exploded during the incident) produced CFM Internationalwill last 30 days. The airline said that because of the check, the flights will be suspended or changed, but the company did not say how many engines they plan to check.

Previously, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States (FAA) reported that within 20 days, almost 700 engines will be checked, similar to those installed on the aircraft Southwest Airlines.

Recall aircraft Boeing-737-700 performed a flight 1380 companies Southwest Airlines from LaGuardia New York Airport to Dallas with 144 passengers and 5 crew members on board. The explosion of the engine on the left side damaged the wing, fuselage and windows of the aircraft.

Due to the depressurization of the window, one of the passengers was pulled into the open window. As a result of the injuries the woman died. The victim was Jennifer Riordan, a mother of two children and vice president of public relations at the bank Wells Fargo.

The plane managed to land. At the helm was 56-year-old Tammy Joe Schulz. She has served in the US Navy since 1985 and was one of the first women to be entrusted with the management of a fighter F / A-18 Hornet. In 1993, she retired with the rank of captain of the third rank and has since been a pilot in the company. Southwest Airlines. Her husband is also a pilot; two children, a son and a daughter, are raised in a family.

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