Study: Southwest Airlines evades major financial setback after fatal Flight 1380

Southwest Airlines may have avoided a lasting financial setback in the wake of the fatal Flight 1380.The engine on a Southwest plane bound from New York to Dallas exploded. Shrapnel from the explosion punctured a window on the plane, and the subsequent rapid decompression of the airplane cabin caused a passenger to be sucked out of the window. The passenger subsequently died, becoming the first fatality aboard a Southwest flight in the company’s nearly 50-year history.New York-based Y