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Southwest flight make emergency landing in Philadelphia

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A damaged engine has been determined as the cause for a Southwest Airline to make an emergency landing at Philadelphia’s airport on Tuesday.

Many passengers were streaming live on their cell phones, Marty Martinez was streaming through Facebook live while the incident was occurring. Martinez told CBSN that he was capturing his last moments as well as saying that there was ‘blood everywhere’ on the plane.

Passengers posted on social media that the plane was going from New York City to Dallas when the incident occurred.

Many praised the pilot for managing and landing the plane calmly.

One death was reported, Jennifer Riordan. She was a mother of two and worked at a Wells Fargo Bank employee from New Mexico.

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