 The pilots behind the controls of a Southwest flight that turned deadly in April when an engine failed midair, talked to ABC News recently about the moment they knew there was a problem aboard the plane. “We were passing through about 32,000 feet when we heard a large bang and a rapid decompression,” Ellisor says in the ABC “20/20” clip. The aircraft yawed and banked to the left, a little over more, a little over 40 degrees and we had a, a very severe vibration from the No. 1 engine that was shaking everything. The explosion, which happened near Philadelphia on a Dallas-bound flight from LaGuardia Airport, led to part of the engine shattering a window and a passenger being partially sucked out of the plane. Tammie Jo Shults, 56, an experienced pilot with Southwest Airlines and one of the Navy's first women pilots trained to fly fighter aircraft. My first thoughts are actually hoe here we go just because it seems like. “My first thoughts were actually, ‘Oh, here we go’ — just because it seemed like a flashback to some of the Navy flying that we had done,” she said.  The pilots of the Southwest Airlines jet that suffered a midair engine explosion had to use hand signals to communicate because of the deafening roar, they said in a new interview. “Darren is just very easy to communicate with and we had to use hand signals because it was loud and it was just hard to communicate for a lot of different reasons,” Shults said.
– It's been nearly a month since a frightening Southwest flight that ended in the death of one passenger, and now the pilot with "nerves of steel" and her co-pilot are finally offering their takes. In a short clip promoting a longer 20/20 interview set to air Friday, pilot Tammie Jo Shults and Darren Ellisor, her co-pilot on April 17's Flight 1380 from New York City to Dallas, explain to ABC News' Martha Raddatz what happened during what the New York Post calls a "harrowing" 22 minutes, from initial explosion to setting down in Philly. It all started with a "large bang and a rapid decompression," Ellisor recalls, noting that "the aircraft yawed and banked to the left … a little over 40 degrees and we had a very severe vibration from the No. 1 engine that was shaking everything." The instant thoughts that zipped through Shults' mind: "'Oh, here we go.' Just because it seems like a flashback to some of the Navy flying that we had done." She adds that the din was so deafening that she and Ellisor were forced to communicate via hand signals as they tried to land the plane. Fortunately, "Darren is just very easy to communicate with," she says. The passenger who died during the emergency was 43-year-old Jennifer Riordan, a Wells Fargo exec from New Mexico.