PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Texas rancher says he and a Texas firefighter pulled a woman back into a plane after a window was damaged following an engine failure.
Tim McGinty told reporters late Tuesday that he helped his wife and a friend put on their oxygen masks before he realized the woman sitting in the row in front of him was in trouble on the Southwest Airlines plane from New York to Dallas that made an emergency landing in Philadelphia.
He grabbed her with his right arm and tried to pull her back into the window, but the force from outside the plane was too strong.
McGinty says that’s when Celina, Texas, firefighter Andrew Needum ran to help and the two were able to pull the woman back in.
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The Albuquerque, New Mexico, woman was killed.
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