A terrifying simulation has shown what happened to a woman who was sucked out of a plane window.
Jennifer Riordan suffered a freak incident while on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flight from New York to Dallas in April 2018.
The mother-of-two was hit by shrapnel after the aircraft blew an engine at 32,000ft, as reported by Sky News.
Parts of the engine shattered the window next to Riordan and she was partially sucked head-first out of the plane.
Terrified passengers struggled in vain to save the life of Riordan - who was vice president of community relations for Wells Fargo bank.
A traveler named Alfred Tumlinson revealed that one man rushed forward "to grab that lady to pull her back in," and shared that the passenger "couldn't do it by himself, so another gentleman came over and helped to get her back in the plane, and they got her".
Another passenger told the outlet that the woman was out of the plane from her waist up, according to Sky News.
The heroic passengers managed to pull her back in and plug the hole in the window. They then administered CPR but unfortunately, the woman suffered some serious head trauma and injuries which she later passed away from.
Seven other people suffered minor injuries.
A YouTube account has shared a horrifying simulation of what Riordan and passengers experienced.
The clip shows how fatal it was when the engine broke off and the debris smashed the window, leading to Riordan being sucked out of the cabin.
Although she was pulled back in, she suffered blunt impact trauma to her head, neck, and torso.
Watch the stimulation below:The plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced the probable cause of the tragic incident during a public board meeting, sharing that there was "a low-cycle fatigue crack in the dovetail of fan blade No. 13, which resulted in the fan blade separating in flight and impacting the engine fan case at a location that was critical to the structural integrity and performance of the fan cowl structure."
"This impact led to the in-flight separation of fan cowl components, including the inboard fan cowl aft latch keeper, which struck the fuselage near a cabin window and caused the window to depart from the airplane, the cabin to rapidly depressurize, and the passenger to suffer fatal injuries," they added.
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