How A Woman Died In An Airplane Explosion Midair (Details Inside)

Jennifer Riordan, 43, a mother-of-two from Albuquerque,was killed after she was almost sucked out her southwest airline flight window following an explosion in midair.The woman who was a Wells Fargo exec was returning from a business trip aboard the New York to Dallas flight when the plane's left engine exploded sending shrapnel flying into a window next to her seat.

She was left hanging half outside the shattered window as fellow passengers desperately scrambled to drag her back inside the aircraft, which was carrying 149 people.

 The pilot, Tammie Jo Shults took the plane into a sharp descent and made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport at 11.27am, after which she was rushed to the hospital. Authorities confirm that she later died while seven other people were injured.

According to Daily mail, Shults, a former Navy fighter pilot and one of the first women to fly an F-18, quickly brought Flight 1380 to land having calmly told Air Traffic Control: 'So we have a part of the aircraft missing.'

Asked if the plane was on fire, she said: 'No, it's not on fire but part of it's missing. They said there is a hole and someone went out.' She added that 'we have injured passengers' as she requested medical staff to meet them on landing. Passengers say that after landing the plane, the pilot took the time to speak to all those aboard personally.

Those on board said they heard a loud 'boom' and the Boeing 737-700 immediately dropped, they said, by what felt like 100ft. Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling and passengers said their prayers and braced for impact.

Riordan was sitting next to the smashed window and others next to her described holding her down for 12 minutes until the plane landed.

Alfred Tumlinson, one of the passengers on board said he saw a man in a cowboy hat rush forward a few rows 'to grab that lady to pull her back in. She was out of the plane. He couldn't do it by himself, so another gentleman came over and helped to get her back in the plane, and they got her'. From her waist above was outside of the plane already said another passenger while the passengers somehow struggled to cover the whole while giving the victim CPR .

During the incident, a lot of the passengers were afraid and upset while a very few of them where strong and kept yelling trying to calm everyone down.