[DeanFL]

No doubt the chances of this happening to YOU is much smaller than winning Powerball in 100 lifetimes. Didn't do the calc, but...

ALWAYS wear my belt - in Cart/Cart/Plane - at all times.

And know how to place the Oxygen mask on planes...unlike some passengers per photo of that fateful flight.

She probably "went" quickly - but not quick enough, perhaps seconds. Certainly bad enough for her, but imagine her row seatmates. The shock. And heroic ways to get her back into the plane.

Accolades to the SWA crew all around - so professional it appears. Will be interesting to see if they determine how the fan blade was corrupted, not IDing in maintenance, and measures forward. I'm surprised the shattered blade did not take out any others and compound the problem.

Comforting to hear this was the first USA casualty on a US airline since 2009... talk about a wonderful safety record. So much news re this (understandably) but the #s of car deaths, drug deaths etc,,, but the media -and we- focus on things as this.