ENGINE EXPLOSION IN MIDAIR

   A woman was nearly sucked out of a Southwest Airlines flight Tuesday when an engine exploded in midair, causing shrapnel to shatter the jet’s window, according to terrified passengers.
   The left engine of Flight 1380 — bound for Dallas from LaGuardia Airport — suddenly burst around 11:30 a.m. as the plane was near Philadelphia, passengers said on social media.
   A piece of shrapnel from the explosion blew out a window, and a female passenger was partially sucked out the hole, sending her fellow fliers scrambling to her rescue

  The hero commercial pilot who safely landed a Boeing 737 full of passengers after shrapnel from an engine explosion breached the cabin was a former Navy pilot and one of the first women to take the stick of an F/A-18 fighter jet, according to reports.