A flight from New Orleans to Orlando was forced to make an emergency landing after part of the engine tore away from the plane mid-air.
Southwest Airlines flight 3472 had just taken off from Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans when passengers said they heard an explosion.
"There was smoke and then nothing. I saw parts flapping in the wind because it was right outside my window," a passenger told KOCO in Oklahoma City. The man said the plane began to shake violently and descend rapidly. Oxygen masks fell and children began to cry.
