Hearing Reveals Chilling Details of Fatal Southwest Flight

Hearing Reveals Chilling Details of Fatal Southwest Flight
A Southwest Airlines plane sits on the runway at the Philadelphia International Airport after it made an emergency landing in Philadelphia. In new accounts released on Nov. 14, 2018. David Maialetti/The Philadelphia Inquirer/AP
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There was a loud bang, and suddenly the Southwest Airlines jet rolled sharply to the left. Smoke began to fill the cabin, and flight attendants rushed row by row to make sure all passengers could get oxygen from their masks.

When flight attendant Rachel Fernheimer got to row 14, she saw a woman strapped in her lap belt but with her head, torso and arm hanging out a broken window.