NTSB recommends redesign of engine part
(WorldNews Mexico)

Federal safety officials say Boeing should redesign part of the casing on some engines to prevent the kind of accident that occurred when engine debris blew out a window on a Southwest Airlines plane and killed a passenger. The National Transportation Safety Board determined Tuesday that the April 2018 accident that killed Jennifer Riordan, an Albuquerque banker and mother of two, was caused by a cracked fan blade that broke off in flight, hitting the engine case at a critical location. Parts of the engine turned into shrapnel, striking the fuselage. After a harrowing emergency descent from 32,000 feet, the pilots of Southwest flight 1380 were able to land the crippled Boeing 737 in...