Regulators have called on Boeing to redesign the fan cowl structure on thousands of its 737 NG planes and retrofit existing planes after a fatal accident in 2018 in which a woman was killed after she was nearly sucked out of a window.
The passenger was killed on a Dallas-bound Southwest Airlines plane in April 2018 when a broken fan blade caused an engine failure and punctured a three-pane window. The woman, 43-year-old Jennifer Riordan of New Mexico, was partially sucked out of the aircraft briefly.
