'From her waist above, she was outside of the plane': Passengers describe Southwest Airlines mid-air horror, heroism

NEW YORK: The woman who died when an engine exploded on a Dallas-bound Southwest Airlines flight on Tuesday (April 18) was nearly sucked out of the aircraft when cabin pressure was lost after a window shattered, but was pulled back in by other passengers.

According to a passenger on the flight, Marty Martinez, "Everybody was going crazy, and yelling and screaming."