WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is meeting the crew and passengers of a Southwest Airlines flight forced into an emergency landing in Philadelphia after an engine exploded, damaging the fuselage and critically injuring a passenger who was partially sucked out of a window broken by shrapnel.
The White House says Trump wants to thank the crew for safely landing the damaged airplane. He also wants to meet passengers who assisted other travelers.
Capt. Tammie Jo Shults and First Officer Darren Ellisor, the pilots, are expected to attend, along with three flight attendants and five passengers.
Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 was headed from New York to Dallas last month when an engine on the Boeing 737 exploded at 30,000 feet.
Jennifer Riordan, a bank executive from New Mexico, died from her injuries.
Haven’t those poor folks suffered enough already?
Some new props ?
I’m sure he’ll regale those assembled about the brilliant leadership on his part that resulted in a safe landing with minimal casualties. Oh, and if this accident had happened during one of his predecessors terms the plane would have plowed into a cornfield, killing all aboard.
If in some alternative universe I were named a Congressional Medal of Honor winner I’d tell the White House to shove their ceremony up their ass and mail the damned thing UPS, thank you. I’ll be busy that day cleaning the litter boxes.
He would have saved that passenger, but she did know what she signed up for.
Oh, and the pilot did a great job for a woman. Nobody knew women could fly planes like that.
I think that about covers it.