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Southwest passenger sues airline over deadly mid-air engine failure

By Joe Williams
Published April 27, 2018 9:55pm ET
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Southwest passenger sues airline over deadly mid-air engine failure
Southwest Airlines employees crowd around a newly unveiled plane paint color scheme during an event at Love Field Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, in Dallas. The change comes in a year during which 43-year-old Southwest has begun international flights, expanded in New York and Washington, and is freed from longtime government limits on its Dallas schedule. (AP Photo/LM Otero) | LM Otero

A passenger on the Southwest Airlines flight whose engine failure left another traveler dead filed a lawsuit seeking damages for severe injuries.

Southwest flight 1380 was forced to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia earlier this month after shrapnel from an engine fan blade pierced the window of the single-aisle Boeing 737 traveling to Dallas from New York City.

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