One passenger dead, other passengers injured, some of the passengers were screaming, the crippled plane is going down, not to worry because the lady pilot is totally calm and professional. The video is the conversation between the brilliant American pilot and the equally competent air traffic control.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Witness reports, videos and preliminary information gathered by federal officials suggest the Boeing Co. 737-700 suffered the most serious and rare type of engine problem, called an uncontained failure, in which rapidly spinning parts break off and end up penetrating the engine’s outer casing and front cover.

The accident happened at cruising altitude, according to people familiar with the sequence of events, after the jet left New York’s LaGuardia Airport for Dallas Love Field. The plane, piloted by Tammie Jo Shults, made an emergency landing at around 11:27 a.m. at Philadelphia International Airport. There were 144 passengers and five crew members on board.

Passengers described a chilling scene of chaos. Marty Martinez had just pulled out a book to read when he heard a loud boom. Within seconds, oxygen masks dropped down. Shrapnel from the burst engine slammed against a window a few rows in front of him and broke it open, he said.

He said a woman seated where the window burst suffered injuries and passed out. Other passengers were holding on to her body to keep her from getting sucked out the opening.

The plane tilted to the right, so that Mr. Martinez could see the ground below outside his window. It shook violently as it descended, worse than any turbulence he had ever experienced before, he said.

Diana Self, an insurance agent with Texas Farm Bureau who had been in New York with her husband on a business trip, said he tried to calm down people sitting around them who were panicking.

As the plane neared the ground, a flight attendant said over the intercom, “Brace yourself! Brace yourself!”

The plane landed hard and at high speed. When it finally stopped, “the entire plane was just silent,” Mr. Martinez, the digital agency owner, said. Then people erupted with cheers and sobs.

BBC News:

Mrs Shults served in the US Navy for 10 years and flew fighter jets.

She was among the first cohort of female fighter pilots to transition to tactical aircraft, the US Navy has confirmed.

"What an incredible demonstration of real air traffic control. Audio has been condensed but includes all publicly available ATC transmissions to/from SWA1380 from the time they declared an emergency to the time they stopped on the ground. Audio quality of these feeds varies dramatically just due to distance to transmitters, A/D converters, interference, receivers, bandwidth, bitrate, compression, digital artifacts, dither, all that fun stuff, etc. Great work by all who helped get this plane on the ground."

Southwest Airlines pilot Tammie Jo Shults, right, spoke to passengers after Flight 1380 made an emergency landing with a blown-out engine in Philadelphia.

While in the Navy, Capt. Tammie Jo Shults served at the Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron in Point Mugu, Calif., as an instructor pilot flying the EA-6B Prowler and F/A-18 Hornet.