Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 Engine Failure

[Zad]

Not nice - Debris penetrated the window causing rapid decompression and one female passenger partially sucked outside the aircraft, currently critically ill in hospital. It looks like the front fan disk of the engine is intact, and it ingested the nacelle debris.



The thing is - compare with Southwest Airlines 3472 incident in August 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_F...



Same aircraft and 737-700 and engine type (if that's relevant)- CFM56 (GE)

[Zad]

It will be interesting to see what actually hit the window / fuselage, whether it was a separated blade or debris from the inlet duct, and which came first. In the 2016 incident a fan blade suffered fatigue, although it seems that investigation is still on-going.

I guess the engine manufacturer's engineers around the world are going to be very busy in the coming days doing a lot of inspection and crack testing.

[Zad]

I think you mean turbine blade? The fan blades are at the front and provide the bulk of the thrust, and take the brunt of the hits from foreign objects flying around.