![]() The newly qualified cabin crew member at the rear had not noticed that the oxygen masks had deployed until the SWA employee seated in the spare aft jumpseat alerted her to the situation. The first two cabin members immediately went to their assigned seats and put on oxygen masks. The cabin crew member assigned to the aft cabin was in the galley, preparing for the in-flight service. The crew member assigned the forward entry door seat was in the forward lavatory and the other cabin crew member was in the cabin, near row 5. There was literally not a single seat free on the flight.Ībout half an hour after departure, the cabin crew heard a loud sound and the aircraft vibrated violently. All 143 passenger seats were occupied and the 144th passenger, an SWA employee, was given the free jumpseat in the aft cabin. There were 144 passengers on the flight that day. The third crew member, assigned to the aft cabin area, was a new hire and had completed her training just six weeks before the accident occurred. The crew member seated at the forward galley door position was expected to deal with both the front and aft cabins. The cabin crew member at the forward entry door position was responsible for the forward cabin and had completed her training in 2016, two years before the accident. The third crew member was assigned the aft left galley door position. ![]() Two were sat in the forward cabin, one at the forward entry door position, and the other at the forward galley door position. There were two flight crew and three cabin crew on board.Įach cabin crew member was assigned a seat. Southwest Airlines flight 1380 was a scheduled passenger flight from LaGuardia, New York to Dallas, Texas. There are six emergency exits: four floor-level door exits and two overwing window exits, serving 24 rows of passenger seats, where each row was two sets of three seats (ABC and DEF) except for row 11, which only had two passenger seats next to the overwing exit. The forward cabin had two aft-facing seats and the aft cabin had two forward facing seats for cabin crew members. The Boeing 737 was configured with 143 passenger seats, two flight crew seats, two cockpit observer seats and four flight attendant jumpseats on double retractable seat sets. During the emergency landing, the three cabin crew members sat down in the aisle, held down by seated passengers on either side. Lower aft corner of the inboard fan cowl aligned with the witness marks on the fuselage.Īlthough I covered the sequence of events in my previous post, I wanted to write about a secondary aspect of this flight, which hasn’t received much attention: the fact that the cabin crew ended up in an unsafe situation. ![]() The flight crew and the cabin crew responded quickly and sensibly and yet, there was nothing they could do to save the life of the woman who happened to be in the wrong seat at the wrong time. This struck me as an incredibly tragic death. There was one fatality, the passenger sitting in the window seat where the shrapnel struck the fuselage. ![]() The crew immediately descended and diverted to Philadelphia, landing safely seventeen minutes after the engine failure took place. A fragment from the engine broke a cabin window, leading to a rapid depressurisation event. Last week, we looked at Southwest Airlines flight 1380 which suffered an engine failure while climbing to cruise altitude on the 17th of April 2018. ![]()
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